Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi,
>
> The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very
> difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself
> goes mad) but when there is no kdb there is very little useful information
> one can extract from a dead system...
>
> I will start removing kernel subsystems, one by one and try to reproduce
> it on as plain kernel as possible (i.e. just io, no networking etc.)
>
> So, this not-very-useful report just says -- test11-pre6 is extremely
> unstable, a simple "ltrace ls" can cause a lockup. Also, some programs
> work when run normally but coredump (or hang) when run via strace, but
> only sometimes, not always... (no, I don't have faulty memory, I run
> memtest!)
>
It could be that -test5 and -test6 break some assumption kdb makes.
It has been eminently stable here.
-hpa
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