From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262186AbULQV7d (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:59:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262181AbULQV5p (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:57:45 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:51365 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262173AbULQVzz (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:55:55 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-03 and NVidia wierdness, with workaround... From: Steven Rostedt To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML In-Reply-To: <200412172149.iBHLnsEP013332@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200412161626.iBGGQ5CI020770@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1103300362.12664.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1103303011.12664.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200412171810.iBHIAQP3026387@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1103313861.12664.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200412172149.iBHLnsEP013332@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:55:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1103320527.3538.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:49 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:04:21 EST, Steven Rostedt said: > > > Nope! I have the 6629. Actually, the patch you have for NV solved the > > pgd_offset problem. > > Glad to hear it, I'm just the messenger on that one (I forget which lkml > denizen actually wrote/posted that one). > > > But I'm amazed that you didn't get into the > > may_sleep calls. I keep typing may_sleep for some reason, it really gets annoying when searching for that function ;-) > > I'm actually not *that* surprised - my test base consists entirely of one Dell > Latitude C840 laptop with a GeForce4 440 Go card, so there's no SMP issues or > similar, and I don't do heavy 3D or anything unless xscreensaver decides to use > a random OpenGL display hack. Most likely, your hardware and/or CONFIG_* setup > is getting it into code paths that never get hit on my system. And the > might_sleep() is almost certainly on one of those paths. > > (For the record, I *did* see a few might_sleep hits on 2.6.10-rc2-mm4-V0.7.31-15, > but they only hit sendmail, gpg, bash, and stuff like that, never an X-based program.) I just sent my last email out just before I received this one. Just for the record, I'm testing this on a SMP Athlon system (my main desktop) and a SMP HT Thinkpad G41 (just hyper threaded, not really SMP, but it does act the same). -- Steve