linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:52:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mariusz Kozłowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, 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

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:01:40 +0200 Mariusz Kozłowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl> wrote:

> 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).
> 

fix-sysfs-reclaim-crash.patch is known-bad.  Did you try reverting that?
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