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

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 21:45:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, devzero@....de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel hangs in SMP + VMware environment.


On Wednesday 2008-05-14 20:30, Alok Kataria wrote:
>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.

I too noticed it; clocksource=pit is my current workaround.

>>> 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).

It does not happen for 2.6.23, and IIRC it did not with 2.6.24
either; 2.6.25-rcish is the first to show this behavior.
Oh well, time to bisect.
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