On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 19:20 +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
> On 01.06.2011 18:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:58 +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
> >> git bisect blames this commit for a problem I have with v3.0-rc1:
> >> If I printk large amounts of data, the machine locks up.
> >> As the commit does not revert cleanly on top of 3.0, I haven't been
> >> able to double check.
> >> The test I use is simple, just add something like
> >>
> >> for (i=0; i< 10000; ++i) printk("test %d\n", i);
> >>
> >> and trigger it, in most cases I can see the first 10 printks before
> >> I have to power cycle the machine (sysrq-b does not work anymore).
> >> Attached my .config.
> >
> > I've made me a module that does the above, I've also changed my .config
> > to match yours (smp=y, sched-cgroup=y, autogroup=n, preempt=n, no_hz=y),
> > but sadly I cannot reproduce, I get all 10k prints on my serial line.
> >
> > Even without serial line it works (somehow booting without visible
> > console is scary as hell :)
> >
> > Which makes me ask, how are you observing your console?
> >
>
> They don't go out to the serial line, I only observe them with a
> tail -f on messages. Default log level doesn't go the console here.
Right ok, so I used your exact .config, added a few drivers needed for
my hardware and indeed, it doesn't even finish booting and gets stuck
someplace.
Sadly it looks like even the NMI watchdog is dead,.. /me goes try and
make sense of this.
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