Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261300AbVDXDYA (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262238AbVDXDYA (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:24:00 -0400 Received: from zeus2.kernel.org ([204.152.191.36]:61366 "EHLO zeus2.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbVDXDX5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:23:57 -0400 From: Juergen Kreileder To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 References: <20050411012532.58593bc1.akpm@osdl.org> <87wtr8rdvu.fsf@blackdown.de> <87u0m7aogx.fsf@blackdown.de> <1113607416.5462.212.camel@gaston> <877jj1aj99.fsf@blackdown.de> <20050423170152.6b308c74.akpm@osdl.org> <87fyxhj5p1.fsf@blackdown.de> <1114308928.5443.13.camel@gaston> X-PGP-Key: http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x730A28A5 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 7C19 D069 9ED5 DC2E 1B10 9859 C027 8D5B 730A 28A5 Mail-Followup-To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list , Oleg Nesterov Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 05:14:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1114308928.5443.13.camel@gaston> (Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of "Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:15:28 +1000") Message-ID: <87acnokgsj.fsf@blackdown.de> Organization: Blackdown Java-Linux Team User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1755 Lines: 42 Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 03:59 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > >> I'm might be the only one using evdev on ppc64. >> >> And I don't know how popular LVM2 is on disks with Macintosh >> labels. I had to set it up manually when I installed the machine, >> Debian's installer couldn't handle it at that time. >> >> Workload is normal, the lockups happen with just X and Azaereus. >> (The machine also runs mysqld, apache, and a few other daemons. >> But I don't have to put load on these to make the machine lock up.) > > If you make sure you have CONFIG_XMON enabled and CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT, > and make sure X has "UseFBDev" option, do you drop into xmon before > the lockup ? I'll check that. > Also, do you have another machine at hand ? if yes, then we can try > to revive my old firewire based debug tools we used to track things > down in linus tree. I'd have to organize a firewire cable for that first. > I'll have a look at the timer patch next week, they might have some > subtle race caused by a lack of memory barrier. I've had to debug > some of those in early timer code, and those are really nasty, they > usually only trigger under some subtle conditions, like ... heavy > networking. I wouldn't call it "heavy" in my case. Azareus uses quite a few sockets but that isn't that uncommon and external traffic is limited by a ADSL connection. Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://blog.blackdown.de/ - 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/