Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 17 2014 - 21:51:31 EST


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So it could be that I'm just generating a lot more load now.
> I could drop that back down and see if it 'goes away' or at least
> happens less, but it strikes me that there's something here that needs
> fixing regardless.

Oh, absolutely. It's more a question of "maybe what changed can give us a clue".

But if it' something like "more load", that's not going to help
pinpoint, and you might be better off just doing the all-cpu-backtrace
thing and hope that gives some pattern to appreciate..

Linus
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