linux-kernel - Re: Kernel hangs in SMP + VMware environment.

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 11:30:34 -0700
From:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
To:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp
Cc:	devzero@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel hangs in SMP + VMware environment.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Roland wrote:
>> maybe related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9834  ?
> Thank you for URL.
> My bug seems to be timer related.
>
>> you say "recent" , so this does happen from 2.6.21 to 2.6.26rc2 ?
> I don't know exact version, but I don't experience this problem
> in earlier kernels (e.g. Fedora Core 5 which uses kernel 2.6.20).
>
>> does that happen only on a dedicated vmware box, or on different
ones?
>> vmware-tools active? ->stop -> different ?
> vmware-tools is not installed for my Fedora 8.
>
>> could you provide some more information about your hardware/vmware
>> environment ?
>> does that happen on esx or on hosted products (workstation, server,
>> player..) ?
>
> Hardware: ThinkPad X60 (Intel Core 2 Duo, 2048MB RAM, No swap
partition)
> VMware host environment: CentOS 5.1 (x86_64)
> VMware version: VMware Workstation 6.0.2 (x86_64)
> VMware guest environment: many distro using recent kernels (all i386)

Hi Tetsuo,

Can you try the patch attached with this mail, I made this on top of
2.6.24.7 but should fit on any other 2.6.24 based distro kernel.

If the attached patch still gives you the same problem, please send me
your config file and the boot time dmesg's.

Thanks,
Alok

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