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

[prepatch] removal of oops->printk deadlocks

2000-11-14 Thread Andrew Morton
This patch is designed to remove the things which can cause loss of oops information due to the SMP deadlocks which can occur during the oops processing itself. It's fairly x86-specific, but the infrastructure is in place for other SMP-capable architectures to use. It also changes the x86 NMI o