Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268419AbTGIQwa (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:52:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268438AbTGIQw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:52:29 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:32177 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268419AbTGIQwS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:52:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Readd BUG for SMP TLB IPI From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030709185823.1f243367.ak@suse.de> References: <20030709124915.3d98054b.ak@suse.de> <1057750022.6255.41.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030709134109.65efa245.ak@suse.de> <1057769607.6262.63.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030709185823.1f243367.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057770255.6255.70.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 09 Jul 2003 18:04:15 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 18 On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 17:58, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It can happen to any PII/PIII box, its just very very rare on others, so > > rare I guess such crashes are in the noise. > > How do you know it an happen on them? Do you have backtraces? I sat down with a BP6 owner and did lots of debugging. > If the BUG was there they wouldn't be in the noise. With the incomplete/broken > handling it's just a silent hang. I'm not arguing BUG is better than hang, but working right is better than BUG 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/