[LAD] [Bulk] Linux Kernel Lockup

[Will Godfrey]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:22:37 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 23:17:48 +0000
> Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone here has heard about this. I discovered the
> > link quite by accident.
> > 
> > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.3/02866.html
> > 
> > If you're using 3.17 it might be an idea to step back to 3.16, which
> > so far seems to be OK. I've been using 3.16 for several months now
> > and not had any problems.
> 
> $ pacman -Q linux linux-rt linux-rt-lts
> linux 3.17.4-1
> linux-rt 3.14.25_rt22-1
> linux-rt-lts 3.10.58_rt62-2
> 
> No problems with 3.17.4 and all versions 3.17.<4 here, with one
> exception, building modules for the outdated virtualbox version 4.3.12
> still works for kernels <= 3.16 (with and without rt patch), but
> doesn't work for 3.17 kernels. Building the virtualbox modules for
> kernels 3.17 works for current version of virtualbox, unfortunately USB
> is broken for all versions of virtualbox > 4.3.12. A while ago rt
> kernels > 3.8.13-rt locked my AMD machine, but that doesn't happen
> any more, e.g. the above listed linux-rt are ok, at least for
> non-audio work, I didn't used them for audio.

From what I've read, this is a particularly uncooperative bug in that it's not
only random but doesn't appear on all machine architectures.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
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