Messages in this thread | | | From | Alok Kataria <> | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 18:08:56 -0700 | Subject | RE: Kernel hangs in SMP + VMware environment. |
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________________________________________ From: jengelh@sovereign.computergmbh.de [jengelh@sovereign.computergmbh.de] On Behalf Of Jan Engelhardt [jengelh@medozas.de] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:45 PM To: Alok Kataria Cc: penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp; devzero@web.de; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Daniel Hecht Subject: Re: Kernel hangs in SMP + VMware environment.
On Wednesday 2008-05-14 20:30, Alok Kataria wrote: >On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Tetsuo Handa ><penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Roland wrote: >>> maybe related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9834 ? >> Thank you for URL. >> My bug seems to be timer related.
I too noticed it; clocksource=pit is my current workaround.
ANK> What kernel do you see this with ? Did you get a a chance to try the patch ANK> which I sent earlier on this thread ?
>>> you say "recent" , so this does happen from 2.6.21 to 2.6.26rc2 ? > >> I don't know exact version, but I don't experience this problem >> in earlier kernels (e.g. Fedora Core 5 which uses kernel 2.6.20).
It does not happen for 2.6.23, and IIRC it did not with 2.6.24 either; 2.6.25-rcish is the first to show this behavior.
ANK> Are you sure you didn't see it with 2.6.23/2.6.24 ? ANK> i am assuming your test case is also similar to that of Tetsuo. ANK> Multiple guests running simoultaneously.
Oh well, time to bisect.
ANK> Let me know if you get anything their.
Thanks, Alok
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