linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39: crash w/threadirqs option enabled

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:07:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Piszcz <ap@...arrain.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39: crash w/threadirqs option enabled



On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 May 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Crashed again and it rebooted too:
>>
>> reboot   system boot  2.6.39             Thu Jun  9 23:58 - 04:05  (04:06)
>> user1      pts/0        X                Thu Jun  9 19:25 - 19:30  (00:04)
>> user1      pts/10       X                Thu Jun  9 18:23 - crash  (05:35)
>>
>> Any thoughts on what could be causing this?
>> Should I go back to 2.6.38?
>
> If you remove the threadirqs option from the commandline it does not
> happen, right?
Yes, most often anyhow (still using that option)

>
> Can you try the following patch ?
Yup, patched:

# patch -p1 < ../patch-for-cpu 
patching file arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
#

New kernel running now, I also plugged in my USB devices back in as well, we'll see what happens.

Justin.

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