Messages in this thread | | | From | Juergen Kreileder <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2005 05:14:04 +0200 |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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
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