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Re: 2.4.19 on dual 1gig G4 funny slow down to kernel death experience

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2003-02-08 13:27:54

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 22:29, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
I just experienced the funny slow down until kernel death experience again
that I reported many months ago on my dual 1gig G4 machine (smp with 768
meg of memory)

The dmesg log is full of a long stream of the following

wait_on_irq, CPU 0:
irq:  -1 [0 0]
bh:   0 [0 0]
Argh !

The global irq count should never _ever_ get to -1, that's very bad...

Either some weird codepath I haven't manage to figure out, or,
and that's what I'm afraid of, for some reasons, atomic operations
between CPUs failed, which should obviously never happen !

Remind me which rev of the CPU it is ?

Ben.


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