Re: 2.6.24-rc6-git12: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sun Jan 06 2008 - 11:21:52 EST


On Jan 6, 2008 7:57 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Subject : soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [swapper:0]
> > > Submitter : "Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date : 2007-12-07 18:14
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525
> > > Handled-By : "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > i think this only occurs with cpuidle, right? drivers/cpuidle/ and
> > CPU_IDLE is new in 2.6.24 so this appears to be a bug in that code (or a
> > bug elsewhere triggered by that code), not a regression from v2.6.23.
>
> OK, removed from the regressions list.

Nope - actually it did happen without CPU_IDLE so it is definitely a regression.
(See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/17/93 )

And it does happen with latest git which I believe has your patch Ingo.

So I would suggest to keep it on the list of regressions.

Thanks

Parag
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