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    SubjectRe: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI)
    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.

    Now we need to work out why.
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