Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:17 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: Hai Zaar wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ben Hutchingsb...@decadent.org.uk wrote: You found some scheduling changes made post-2.6.28 which seemed to deal with this bug. However, that cannot be the full story because they are

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-11 Thread Berni Elbourn
Hai Zaar wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ben Hutchingsb...@decadent.org.uk wrote: You found some scheduling changes made post-2.6.28 which seemed to deal with this bug. However, that cannot be the full story because they are modifying code which was added after 2.6.26. The attached

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-10 Thread Hai Zaar
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ben Hutchingsb...@decadent.org.uk wrote: You found some scheduling changes made post-2.6.28 which seemed to deal with this bug.  However, that cannot be the full story because they are modifying code which was added after 2.6.26. The attached patch combines a

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 01:28 +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please try rebuilding the lenny kernel (linux-source-2.6.26) with this patch applied and report whether it fixes the bug for you. Thanks very much for this patch. We've deployed a kernel with it on our

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
You found some scheduling changes made post-2.6.28 which seemed to deal with this bug. However, that cannot be the full story because they are modifying code which was added after 2.6.26. The attached patch combines a bug fix made between 2.6.26 and .28 with most of the changes you identified.

Bug#517449: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: SCHED_IDLE issues (tasks blocked for more than 120 seconds)

2009-02-27 Thread Thibaut VARENE
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-13 Severity: important Tags: patch * ISSUE Lenny's kernel is subject to the bug described here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/11/70 * ANALYSIS FIX and fixed with this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/15/107 (in particular with