Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.23.1 Freezes on GB data transfers

["Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>]

On 10/19/07, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> Ray Lee wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Linux Kernel 2.6.23.1 freezes on GB data transfers.
> >>
> >> Pc completely freezed while transferring 4Gb of data from
> >> dvd(/dev/hdc) to hd(nothing else was happening, cpu general usage at
> >> 5-6%).Except for this,it has been working flawlessly for 1 day,but
> >> when I tried to transfer 4Gb of data from the dvd to the hd,after
> >> having completed 60% of the transfer, the system became completely
> >> freezed,no keyboard,no mouse,no consoles,nothing, and the Caps Lock
> >> LED started to blink.
> >
> > The blinking Caps lock LED means that your system is Oopsing. Please
> > try your test again from a console (not from X), and see if an oops
> > message is printed out. If it is, you'll need to either copy it down
> > or take a photograph of it with a digital camera, then post the text
> > of it or post a link to the image.
>
>
> I believe this is now the forth report of blinking-leds lockup with 2.6.23.1.
>
> I wonder what's causing it?
> My system has this as well, totally random, once every day or so.
> New behaviour since 2.6.23-rc9 (I posted previously about this).

Boy, there's just not a lot between 2.6.23-rc9 and 2.6.23 proper.
There are two things that kinda pop out, but this is at best a WAG.

First, are you on x86-32 and happen to have CONFIG_HIGHPTE set?

Second is another memory thing, where in filemap_fault we now do a
page_cache_release where we didn't before, but that appears to only be
in a case where we send a sigbus, so I wouldn't expect that to be
hitting.

Everything else looks to be for uncommon hardware or relatively safe
(such as a few networking changes).

I'll hunt around for the other reports.

Ray