linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31 regression: programs crashing after a couple of days of uptime with hibernation

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 23:45:33 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.31 regression: programs crashing after a couple of days of uptime with hibernation

On Thursday 01 April 2010, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Hello,
> with kernel 2.6.30, I can have uptime of more than a month on my desktop PC
> (with hibernation). It's impossible with 2.6.31. After 1 to 3 days, processes
> that were running during hibernation (e.g. konsole, kwin, kicker, xorg) start
> to crash randomly in very weird ways. The kernel itself does not seem to
> crash. When I run the crashed program again, it seems to work. Looks like
> some memory corruption.
> 
> This bug is also present in 2.6.32 and 2.6.33.

Is the kernel 32-bit or 64-bit?  What kind of CPU is there in the box?

Rafael
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