Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755299AbZFDQRL (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:17:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753587AbZFDQQ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:16:59 -0400 Received: from mx-out2.daemonmail.net ([216.104.160.39]:45158 "EHLO mx-out2.daemonmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753036AbZFDQQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:16:58 -0400 From: "Michael S. Zick" Reply-To: lkml@morethan.org To: Duane Griffin Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support] Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:08:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Harald Welte References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906041108.29557.lkml@morethan.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 39 On Thu June 4 2009, Duane Griffin wrote: > 2009/6/4 Linus Torvalds : > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote: > >> Well, that one isn't anything to brag about" > > > > So what's the problem on that machine? Is the VIA C7-M (or some random > > device in it) just buggy and it eventually hangs, or what? Has _any_ > > kernel ever worked on that machine for longer than an hour or two? > > There have been reports of hangs on various VIA C7 machines going back > a year now. The version of the kernel doesn't seem to matter, but the > version of glibc does. Unfortunately there hasn't been much progress > in getting to the bottom of it. > There have been recent tweaks to the futex service in the kernel, this might interact with how a particular glibc expects them to work. I also add a few tweaks in my local patches to futex.etc, so it may need more in mainline (un-proven at this point). It seems to make a difference with pulse-audio - - which is my "test program". Mike > See here (and other linked reports): > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228263 > > Cheers, > Duane. > -- 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/