Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756990AbYCJWR0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:17:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756078AbYCJWQ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:58 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:34691 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753319AbYCJWQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:56 -0400 From: Chr To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: endless loop in native_flush_tlb_others in smp_64.c Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:16:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803102316.54457.chunkeey@web.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19mgCBaSt8674GjThOpQn7cuuRk5g8DdeJGencE Lq//55n00zricwTYzu7M7hrgrva2qIXTLgA+aEmQvQydzC7xOy zyxQVOuqc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1109 Lines: 34 Hi, ever since I moved to 2.6.25-rcY (Y should be between 2 and 5!). I've seen several, but really hard-to-catch instant freezes on my AMD64 Athlon X2 4200+ system... Most of them happend in X.org so at first I thought it had something to do with the NVIDIA module... BUT, one time it froze "a way before" the module could get loaded (and desynced my raid.......). --- SYSRQ-P revealed that the CPU were looping inside: smp_64.c native_flush_tlb_others: assembler code: < 1ee: f3 90 pause < 1f0: f6 45 00 03 testb $0x3,0x0(%rbp) < 1f4: 75 f8 jne 1ee also known as: (in C) while (!cpus_empty(f->flush_cpumask)) cpu_relax(); So... has anyone a good idea what's happening here exactly? Or is there already another topic or even a patch available? Regards, Chr. -- 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/