Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-mm1 | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:21:03 -0500 |
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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:52:10 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> > 2) The PS/2 keyboard death on ppp traffic is still not fixed. > > Reproducible even on slow GPRS if there's something else (e.g. glxgears) > > that eats some CPU time. When keyboard is dead, events/0 consomes 100% > > of CPU. Nothing in dmesg. If you outline some suspicious pieces of code, > > I will insert printks there in order to debug this. > > input guys cc'ed.
Getting myself on the cc: list, as I've seen this one on 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 (haven't nailed it on 14-mm1 *yet*, but only been up for 12 hours). Also, some additional info:
The keyboard is dead, but other stuff still works - I've been able to issue commands by laborious cut-n-paste into an xterm window. X is still up and responding, as are all the clients, so it's *not* a hard loop in events/0.
Also, I've had gkrellm running when it hits, and it will show incoming data rates on the modem of 3.5Mbytes/sec (as opposed to the 5K/sec you'd expect from a 56k modem). A few times, I've had it go into auto-ambush on an iptables rule, with the same rule tripping several tens of thousands of times in a row, which makes me think it's got to do with a short packet (such as an inbound SYN packet) going into replicator mode and just being handed up from the device driver over and over, thousands of times....
alt-sysrq still works - I can sysrq-T to get traces, -S to sync, -B to reboot and so on, and the output gets through klogd and syslogd and into /var/adm/messages.
I'm able to often trigger the bug by opening a new tab in Firefox, as that (a) involves small SYN+ACK packets coming back and (b) a Firefox bug causes it to chew CPU when displaying a page in a tab....
I'm willing to test-drive any debugging/patches needed, as this is probably the single biggest stability hit I have in -mm at the moment.
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