Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

From: john stultz
Date: Tue Sep 26 2006 - 18:51:47 EST


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 00:15 +0300, S.ÃaÄlar Onur wrote:
> 26 Eyl 2006 Sal 15:36 tarihinde, Greg Schafer ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> > This is a _hard_ lockup. No oops, no magic sysrq, no nuthin, just a
> > completely dead machine with only option the reset button. Usually happens
> > within a couple of minutes of desktop use but is 100% reproducible. Problem
> > is still there in a fresh checkout of current Linus git tree (post 2.6.18).
>
> Same symptoms here and its reproducible after starting the irqbalance (0.12 or
> 0.13), if i disable irqbalance then everything is going fine.

Hmm.. Not sure about the connection to irqbalance. You're using the TSC
clocksource, so I'm curious if your cpu TSC's are out of sync. Can you
boot w/ "clocksource=acpi_pm" to see if that resolves it?

thanks
-john


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