system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

[Robert Kuebel]

My system has been hanging since I switched from 2.4.7-pre3.  The
lock-up's seem to happen during periods of disk activity. I was usually
able to reproduce the hangs by untar-ing the kernel source a few times.
Also, these kernels tended to hang while fsck'ing.

2.4.7-pre3 was working fine, but 2.4.7-pre4 through 2.4.8-pre3 were not.
Also 2.4.7-ac6 froze on me.

I am running on an Abit KT7 and an IBM-DTLA-307045 IDE drive.

If there is anything I can do to help smash this bug, please let me know.

Also please 'cc:' me on any replies, I can only handle the digest form of
linux-kernel.

Thanks.
Rob.

This is my .config:
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_MK7=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_TULIP=y
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=64
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_TDFX=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=y

Re: system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

[Sven Goethel]

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On Sunday 05 August 2001 07:28, Robert Kuebel wrote:
> My system has been hanging since I switched from 2.4.7-pre3.  The
> lock-up's seem to happen during periods of disk activity. I was usually
> able to reproduce the hangs by untar-ing the kernel source a few times.
> Also, these kernels tended to hang while fsck'ing.
>
> 2.4.7-pre3 was working fine, but 2.4.7-pre4 through 2.4.8-pre3 were not.
> Also 2.4.7-ac6 froze on me.
>

well, may be a bit OT .. but:

i had the freeze in conjunction with 
	- [2.4.7-pre4 .. 2.4.7] + xfs
	- iptables
	- pppoe

now, i use:
	- 2.4.7, xfs
	- 2.4.7-ac6 patch 
	  (only the netfilter part, cause the rest is not xfs clean ..)
	- iptables
	- pppoe
and it works nice !


> I am running on an Abit KT7 and an IBM-DTLA-307045 IDE drive.
>

hmm .. may be you did some hot hdparm settings ?

how about none hdparm settings ?

how about the 2.4.7ac6 patch ?
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Re: system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

[Robert Kuebel]

> your hdparm settings are *insane*.

I had some big corruption in early 2.4. I have been using those params for
a while, and I know they are slow.  Do I have a better chance at stability
w/ DMA enabled.

Rob.

Re: system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

[Robert Kuebel]

> i had the freeze in conjunction with
> 	- [2.4.7-pre4 .. 2.4.7] + xfs
> 	- iptables
> 	- pppoe
>
> now, i use:
> 	- 2.4.7, xfs
> 	- 2.4.7-ac6 patch
> 	  (only the netfilter part, cause the rest is not xfs clean ..)
> 	- iptables
> 	- pppoe
> and it works nice !

I have tried -ac6 with no luck.

> hmm .. may be you did some hot hdparm settings ?
>
> how about none hdparm settings ?

My hdparm setting are conservative:
/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr       =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 5606/255/63, sectors = 90069840, start = 0