Subject: Re: new SMP problems
To: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/15/2003 22:10:41
At 8:40 Uhr -0800 15.1.2003, Jon Buller wrote:
>In particular, the Jan10 kernel would report that it could not ping
>a cpu no more often than every couple of minutes, and sometimes
>not for a few hours.  The Jan13 kernel, on the other hand, reported
>about a hundred such logs between each line of the regular boot
>messages, finally ending in a panic about "simple_lock: locking
>against myself", before allowing a login.

I have seen exactly the same pattern, and removed the LOCKDEBUG option
after a hint from Matthew. The smp kernel has quieted down and survived two
Amanda backups since then.

Looks fairly good, from where I stand.

	hauke

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