From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261828AbVF0FoK (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:44:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261832AbVF0FoJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:44:09 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:4801 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261828AbVF0Fnu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:43:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:43:44 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00 In-reply-to: <20050625041453.GC6981@elte.hu> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , William Weston , "K.R. Foley" , "Eugeny S. Mints" , Daniel Walker Message-id: <200506270143.47690.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050625041453.GC6981@elte.hu> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 25 June 2005 00:14, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* William Weston wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> > do you have the NMI watchdog enabled? Find below >> > serial-logging-earlyprintk-nmi.txt. >> >> I had a serial console up, but not NMI watchdog until now. Here's >> some NMI watchdog traces from both -50-17 and -50-18: > >all of these traces seem to have lockupcli involved - is that > correct? lockupcli is just a userspace test-app to artificially > trigger a hard-lockup (it disables interrupts and goes into an > infinite loop). So the NMI watchdog triggering on lockupcli would > be normal and expected. So once this works, it would be nice to > reproduce whatever hard lockup you are seeing and see whether the > NMI watchdog produces any output to the serial log. (if such log is > supposed to be included in your dmesg then it somehow got > intermixed with lockupcli logs) > > Ingo In the FWIW category, I booted 50-23 about an hour & a half ago, same mode 3, no hardirq's, everything seems to be working fine except for kmails total lack of threading causeing composer hangs while a mail fetch/spamassassin run is in progress. But thats not anything new to this patchset, its an equal opportunity annoyer. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.