Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268305AbUJUJVZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:21:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268971AbUJUJRv (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:17:51 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:23504 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268819AbUJUJRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:17:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:18:50 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Rui Nuno Capela Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com, "K.R. Foley" , Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Schmidt , Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U8 Message-ID: <20041021091850.GA29183@elte.hu> References: <20041014002433.GA19399@elte.hu> <20041014143131.GA20258@elte.hu> <20041014234202.GA26207@elte.hu> <20041015102633.GA20132@elte.hu> <20041016153344.GA16766@elte.hu> <20041018145008.GA25707@elte.hu> <20041019124605.GA28896@elte.hu> <20041019180059.GA23113@elte.hu> <20041020094508.GA29080@elte.hu> <30690.195.245.190.93.1098349976.squirrel@195.245.190.93> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30690.195.245.190.93.1098349976.squirrel@195.245.190.93> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 23 * Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > One of the signs that there's real trouble in here can be seen on > the following complete dmesg output (which was even a miracle to be > captured at all). This shows the complete bootstrap and init sequences > and at the end one fatal crash while plugging an USB flash memory > stick (usb-storage). This has been already reported earlier yesterday, > but I just want to make it here, as the evidence-at-hand. > > After this precise occurence, the system becomes very flaky, > unreliable and often ends up freezing to death. for the sake of testing could you disable CONFIG_USB and see whether the instability is truly directly related to the USB crash, as you suspect? Such a kernel crash can often destabilize other parts of the kernel. Ingo - 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/