linux-kernel - Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyH+Kh+oSuQkxzFu=r7jABqzZ1VZSY-mswCTK51-YibQA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:41:04 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Martin van Es <mrvanes@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Martin van Es <mrvanes@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hope this may help in finding the right direction for this bug?
>
> If you can reproduce it with your spare J1900 system and could perhaps
> bisect it there, that would be a huge help.

Side note: your load sounds superficially more like the one Dâniel
Fraga had, who saw lockups with 3.17 but 3.18-rc7 actually works for
him.

But if you're running 3.17.3, I think you should already have all the
relevant fixes throuigh the -stable tree.

                       Linus
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