Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, so the options are now: > > nmi_watchdog=0 > nmi_watchdog=1 > nmi_watchdog=1,verbose looks good for me! Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > So... In this updated patch the console_silent() call remains > > as you designed it, but the nmi_watchdog kernel boot parameter has > > been overloaded so that > > > > nmi_watchdog=2 > > > > will now cause _all_ NMI oops messages to be displayed on the console. >

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pawe³ Kot" wrote: > > In attachment. But don't beat me. I think I found the oops reason. > /dev/shm was not mounted. After mounting it I couldn't get an oops yet. > Could this be a reason? No. >>EIP; c010b5ee <__read_lock_failed+6/18> <= Trace; c02026f7 Trace; c0120404

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Paweł Kot
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Paweł Kot" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The whole oops produced by the 2.4.0-test11pre4 with this patch is in the > > attachment. Other system info is tehere as well. > > > > Oops is produced when runnning big-tables test from mysql sql-bench. > > It's r

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pawe³ Kot" wrote: > > Hi, > > The whole oops produced by the 2.4.0-test11pre4 with this patch is in the > attachment. Other system info is tehere as well. > > Oops is produced when runnning big-tables test from mysql sql-bench. > It's reproducable. The machine is running only mysqld. Thank yo

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > [...] Problem is, we're getting some reported lockups in which we need > to know what the other CPUs are doing (the other 1%). If a critical > spinlock is stuck on, we don't get to type `dmesg'. i know - but we cannot please everyone, so i went for th

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It also changes the x86 NMI oopser so that it no longer shuts the > > console up after the first NMI oops. Instead, each CPU is allowed > > to print out NMI diagnostics a single time per reboot. > > this is not how the NMI

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > It also changes the x86 NMI oopser so that it no longer shuts the > console up after the first NMI oops. Instead, each CPU is allowed > to print out NMI diagnostics a single time per reboot. this is not how the NMI oopser works. It does *not* shut do

Re: [prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-14 Thread Paweł Kot
Hi, The whole oops produced by the 2.4.0-test11pre4 with this patch is in the attachment. Other system info is tehere as well. Oops is produced when runnning big-tables test from mysql sql-bench. It's reproducable. The machine is running only mysqld. regards pkot -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h