linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

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Message-Id: <200703292001.41255.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:01:40 +0200
From:	Mariusz Kozłowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

Hello,

> > > > 	I run 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 with no hangs for a week.
> > > > Then when 2.6.21-rc5-mm1 showed up so I switched to it. Unfortunately
> > > > today my laptop hunged twice in a similar way as described here:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.0/index.html#1165
> > > 
> > > It's not good that we went backwards between those two releases.
> > > 
> > > > The difference is that it happened when I closed the lid in my laptop.
> > > > When reopend it the box was frozen (ACPI?). Again disk I/O was dead
> > > > so nothing was found in syslog.
> > > 
> > > Adrian, does this look like any of the bugs whcih you're monitoring?
> > >...
> > 
> > Is it also present in 2.6.21-rc5?
> 
> Don't know. I usualy test -mm series. Will test tommorow and let you know
> after some reasonable uptime.
> 
> > Is it also present with CONFIG_NO_HZ=n?
> 
> Don't know. Did not try recently. Will let you know.
> 
> It takes time as these hangs are not easy to trigger. With 2.6.21-rc2-mm1
> it was easy -> push the system and watch it die in minutes. With
> 2.6.21-rc5-mm1 it takes hours (3 hangs in ~15 hours) and not sure how to
> trigger it. It just happens from time to time.

Ok. CONGIG_NO_HZ=n and uptime ~12 hours, netconsole loaded, and no hangs
... until I moved my laptop. The same scenario happened yesterday during the
last hang. I started playing and repeating some steps which I naturally do when
I move my laptop.

An hour later I came to this -> steps to hang 2.6.21-rc5-mm1 on my laptop:
1. boot the system and login as root
2. load netconsole (insmod netconole.ko netconsole=blah... blah...)
3. unplug the cable (link goes down)
4. system is frozen until forced to reboot

This is verified and repeatable _every_ single time I tried. Unfortunately
the last thing seen on the screen before system is frozen is 'eth0: link down'.
So my guess is that when hunting for hangs I found something else that can hang
my laptop (netconsole that is).

Regards,

	Mariusz Kozlowski

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