Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756210AbYAORLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:11:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751422AbYAORLf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:11:35 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:2804 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbYAORLe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:11:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aC1Q8Z6YdZflIGvwi0Z/lNzpPloiZokKdnMqHouxkwf/Z6bT81ZeP94rLMXPh9Ne9zW6jDXHAvPJYIodcTT7qj/4gdyt7zuAeMFGMemfHUiIasGyoAtp/d5D9VwcK8asus2ekHxgvezfB1QMFajgYO/L08DmpuZEMVOUtix1NrQ= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:11:33 +0100 From: Matthew To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo) Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ed Tomlinson" , "Thomas Gleixner" In-Reply-To: <200801141716.38380.edt@aei.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47841C41.4060401@zytor.com> <20080114170036.GL15542@elte.hu> <200801141716.38380.edt@aei.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 45 > Ingo, > > This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a > very good thing - IMHO its something that should go into stable asap. > > Thanks, > Ed Tomlinson > > > ++ Ingo, this probably has to do something with the random unmotivated hardlocks which I suffered from with 2.6.23 when I used 2.6.23-based kernels my rig from time to time (sometimes 2 times a day) just locked and wouldn't react to keyboard-input or magic sysrq key anymore if I have a more precise look at my memory (in my head) it probably happened more often around usage with realplayer (<-- at least that app; 32bit on amd64) [perhaps also with 32bit thunderbird] the next suspect is nvidia-drivers: with earlier versions this happened more often for me (that's at least the "feeling" I have) so you guys might want to start with those 3 points (thunderbird, realplayer, nvidia-drivers); considerung use / test with latest cfs-backports would also be a good idea, with early backports I had some problems, whereas it's now perfectly stable (fair group scheduling not enabled) unfortunately I can't / couldn't reproduce it in addition to that I'm pretty busy right now so I can't investigate any further ... hope you also find the culprit for that buggy ;) Regards Mat -- 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/