Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 08:42:21 EST


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With the patch below, it seems 100% reproducible to me (7 out of 7
> > bootups hung).
> >
> > The number of loops it could do before hanging were, in order: 697,
> > 898, 237, 55, 45, 92, 59
>
> cool! Jason: i think that particular self-test should be repeated 1000
> times before reporting success ;-)

BTW, I just tested a 32-bit config and it hung after 55 iterations as well.

Vegard


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