linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.36-rc regression] occasional complete system hangs on sparc64 SMP

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Message-ID: <19624.63312.156073.410319@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>
Date:	Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:36:16 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.36-rc regression] occasional complete system hangs on sparc64 SMP

Mikael Pettersson writes:
 > On my Sun Blade 2500 (2 CPUs), post 2.6.35 kernels sometimes hang
 > completely without visible messages on either the console or in
 > the kernel logs.
 > 
 > The first two times (with -rc1 or -rc3) it happended during gcc
 > bootstraps + regression test runs, today (with -rc4) it happended
 > while compiling the 2.6.36-rc5 kernel.  It's very sporadic, perhaps
 > one of ten boots will eventually hang like this.
 > 
 > With 2.6.35 the machine is rock solid.
 > 
 > The 2.6.36-rc kernels do appear to be solid on a UP Ultra5, but that
 > one no longer does any gcc builds or tests, only kernel builds.
 > 
 > Any ideas, or do I have to try to bisect this?

I've been testing older kernels and can now say that 2.6.35-git5
and newer kernels are definitely affected, but 2.6.35-git4 seems
solid.  I'll dig deeper into the .35-git4->git5 changes towards
the end of next week.

I never got any data out of sysrq-y or any other sysrq when a hang
occurs; usually they'd just print the name of the command but no data,
sometimes they'd oops and crash the kernel even harder.

/Mikael
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