Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | | Subject | Re: tty breakage in X (Was: tty vs workqueue oddities) | | Date | Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:30:27 +0200 |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X > server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a large > file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a loop of > what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace data in the > quoted bits further down).
Btw., do you already have d72bce0 ("rcu: Cure load woes")? Although that is about an independent bug, it appears to amplify this issue a lot.
Andreas.
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