Re: 2.6.25: random stalls on certain hardware - regression?

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 07:37:05 EST


Am Mittwoch 09 Juli 2008 11:22:08 schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 23:56:12 schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> >
> >> Any idea how to start welcome. Meanwhile I'll try current 2.6.26pre,
> >> in a hope it will not destroy all our data.. ;)
> >
> > Can you test whether select() triggers the lockup?
>
> Hmm. Sure I can, and it definitely uses select() here and there -
> samba & Oracle8 & cronyd & vtund & syslogd - that's services
> running on it all using select(2). Can you elaborate a bit
> more on this please? I mean, should it lock up on first select()
> (so that it's not what I see here) or on some random one (still

select() but not necessary the first call. I've got a report which seems
to indicate a rogue pointer while building the poll table. You might
strace a test programm and see whether it hangs in select() if it manages
to trigger the lockup.

Regards
Oliver
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