Bug#494365: 2.6.26 hangs on opteron CPUs
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:51:33PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > it seems that 2.6.26 (whether the debian package or the kernel.org
> > > kernel) locks up after a while on Debian's DL385G1 systems.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:17:34PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > hey Peter,
> > This is readily reproducible - a simple kernel compile was all it
> > took. git bisecting suggests that this issue was introduced by [1]
> > and unmasked by [2] during 2.6.26 devlopment. It was later fixed
> > during 2.6.27 development by [3].
> >
> > Can you confirm that the attached backport of [3] fixes the problem
> > for you?
> > [3] 8004dd965b13b01a96def054d420f6df7ff22d53
I upgraded several of Debian's machines to 2.6.26.2 plus the patch you
provided. So far they are still running - and I put them under load
that would reliably kill them before.
Thanks,
weasel
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