On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Arne Jansen <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No, it doesn't trigger, but the hang is not as complete as I first
> thought. A running iostat via ssh continues to give output for a while,
> the serial console still reacts to return and prompts for login. But
> after a while more and more locks up. The console locks as soon as I
> sysrq-t.
Is it the tty rescheduling bug?
That would explain the printk's mattering.
Remove the schedule_work() call from flush_to_ldisc() in
drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c and see if the problem goes away. See the
other discussion thread on lkml ("tty breakage in X (Was: tty vs
workqueue oddities)")
Hmm?
Linus
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