Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:15:01 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:45:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > I've been stuck on this kernel for a few days now trying to prove it > > good/bad one way or the other, and I'm leaning towards good, given > > that it recovers, even though the traces look similar. > > Ugh. But this does *not* happen with 3.16, right? Even the non-fatal case? > > If so, I'd be inclined to call it "bad". But there might well be two > bugs: one that makes that NMI watchdog trigger, and another one that > then makes it be a hard lockup. I'd think it would be good to figure > out the "NMI watchdog starts triggering" one first, though.
A bisect later, and I landed on a kernel that ran for a day, before spewing NMI messages, recovering, and then..
http://codemonkey.org.uk/junk/log.txt
I could log in, but every command I tried (even shell built-ins) just printed 'bus error'.
I saw those end_request messages in an earlier bisect, I wonder if there was an actual bug that got fixed where allowed non-root to try and do bad things to raw devices. It's always sector 0 too.
Yet again, I'm wondering if this whole thing is just signs of early hardware death.
Dave
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