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At Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:08:37 +0100 (BST), Stephen Borrill wrote:
Subject: Re: 3.1_STABLE and SMP
>=20
> I've given them the instructions and installed a LOCKDEBUG kernel for
> them. So we're just waiting for the next crash that will allow them to get
> to ddb (not all do apparently).

If the hangs (crashes without DDB) are related to kernel locking then
the LOCKDEBUG kernel should in fact detect them and dump into DDB much
more readily.  I don't recall ever having any hangs (except those
related to disk or NFS problems) on SMP hardware since running LOCKDEBUG
kernels.

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						Greg A. Woods

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