Re: 2.6.33: ftrace triggers soft lockup

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sun Mar 14 2010 - 12:56:01 EST


On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:37 +0800, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:07:29PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> >Americo,
> >
> >I still do not know why the function graph tracer is making your system
> >unusable. I'll look more into that when I get a chance. So far, I have
> >not had any issues on any of my boxes.
> >
>
> Oh, in fact, I just tried 2 x86_64 machines, both of them have this
> problem.
>
> Sorry that I don't have much time to do bisect, the last kernel that
> I tried is 2.6.32-rc6, it is bad too. I will try some older kernels
> if I have time.

It may be a config problem. I'll analyze your config again and see if I
can find something with it. But this will need to wait till next week.

Thanks,

-- Steve



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