linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] kernel freezes with latest tree

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:32:23 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel freezes with latest tree

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Has anybody seen other reports like this?

No.

And something generic as the scheduler time changes ought to 
trigger widely - i've booted up thousands and thousands of 
random kernels with your merge in place - which kind of coverage 
tends to trigger generic lockups and races.

So i'd suspect either an environment dependent bug that random 
testing on a low number of specific systems cannot cover:

 - build environment dependent (compiler?) bug
 - hw environment dependent bug
 - or sw environment dependent bug

... or a mis-bisection.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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