Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Dec 12 2009 - 05:42:45 EST



* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:46:11 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Here's the big TTY patchset for your .33-git tree.
> >
> > FYI, one of the changes in this tree is causing lockups on x86.
> >
> > Config attached.
> >
> > Possible suspects would one of these:
> >
> > 36ba782: tty: split the lock up a bit further
> > 5ec93d1: tty: Move the leader test in disassociate
> > 38c70b2: tty: Push the bkl down a bit in the hangup code
> > f18f949: tty: Push the lock down further into the ldisc code
> > eeb89d9: tty: push the BKL down into the handlers a bit
> >
> > as they deal with locking details and are fresher than two weeks.
>
> Any diagnostics with the lockup or just a system hang ?

None that i've captured (the hang is silent) but Andrew posted some.

Ingo
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