Updated Fedora Core 1 testing kernel.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 13:37:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 19:37, Kevin Street wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 12:07, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:09, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > On Friday 16 January 2004 04:37 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > - Fix NPTL SMP hang.
> > > 
> > > What hang is this?  I am having issues with SMP and video capture where I get 
> > > a kernel oops, and a statement to the effect that the kernel killed the 
> > > interrupt handler.
> > 
> > We mishandled PDEATHSIG, probably not something that you'll see in
> > practice, as this would've shown up a lot sooner. The crashes you are
> > seeing are likely something else. Care to post the oops to bugzilla some
> > time ?
> 
> Do you think this will help with the smp kernel hangs during umount in:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112861

Unlikely. as mentioned above PDEATHSIG is not something that's very
common (which is why it went unfixed for so long).

Early indications seem to suggest this is still a problem for
some folks. It's odd that not everyone sees it.

	Dave





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