Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    One of the signs that there's real trouble in here can be seen on
> the following complete dmesg output (which was even a miracle to be
> captured at all). This shows the complete bootstrap and init sequences
> and at the end one fatal crash while plugging an USB flash memory
> stick (usb-storage). This has been already reported earlier yesterday,
> but I just want to make it here, as the evidence-at-hand.
> 
>    After this precise occurence, the system becomes very flaky,
> unreliable and often ends up freezing to death.

for the sake of testing could you disable CONFIG_USB and see whether the
instability is truly directly related to the USB crash, as you suspect?
Such a kernel crash can often destabilize other parts of the kernel.

	Ingo
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