linux-kernel - Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

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Date:	Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:26:22 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	airlied@...ux.ie
Subject: Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

On 09/09/2007 04:17 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Hm, I suspect Andi's x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch or something like that. It
>> loops in flush_kernel_map in list_for_each_entry on the first CPU. The a->l list
>> is somehow corrupted I guess.
> 
> Does it still happen with the latest version 

I think so :)
$ diff -u x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch cpa-clflush |wc -l
0

> ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/cpa-clflush
> 
> ?
> 
> (you might need to replace the other cpa-* patches too because
> they depend on each other) 

And are there any changes against the -rc4-mm1 in those patches?

BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64,
radeon-intel), don't you have the problem too?

regards,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@...il.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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