Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:57:52 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI) |
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Dave Olson <olson@unixfolk.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > | > Intended to be more or less stock fc4 but with CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y and > | > 2.6.17-based patch so the 8131 MSI quirk isn't enabled. > | > > | > >From the config file: > | > CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y > | > CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y > | > | OK, I goofed again. > | > | It would be super-interesting to know whether CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=n > | improves things. > > It does. No stalls, hangs, or nmi's in several hours of running the > test that previously failed on almost every run (with long stalls, system > hangs, or NMI watchdogs), on the same hardware. > > I made no other changes to the kernel config than turning both of > the above off. >
Well isn't that interesting, thanks. We have our 2.6.17.x patch.
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