Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22

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From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 2:44 pm

Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> writes:

That usually means random memory corruption from somewhere -- dcache
tends to use a lot of memory and when it is corrupted anywhere these 
functions tend to crash while walking the lists. 

Unfortunately memory corruption is hard to track down because
the messenger is usually not the one to blame.

Perhaps enable slab debugging and see if it turns
something up. Could be also broken hardware. Does an older kernel
run stable? If yes and if it can be reproduced bisecting would
be good.

-Andi
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x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Mon Sep 24, 2:08 pm)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Thomas Gleixner, (Mon Sep 24, 2:29 pm)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Sat Sep 29, 7:09 am)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Thomas Gleixner, (Sun Sep 30, 8:58 am)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Sun Sep 30, 1:57 pm)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Andi Kleen, (Sun Sep 30, 2:44 pm)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Mon Oct 1, 1:41 am)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Fri Oct 5, 5:11 am)
Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22, Helge Hafting, (Mon Oct 8, 3:35 pm)