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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:39:31 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial break into debugger broken from 'cu' on -CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <20020310203931.D19456@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a6g7sp$2ect$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:15:53PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020310100210.61696P-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20020310161126.A18441@freebie.xs4all.nl> <p0510151db8b13ce922ff@[10.1.1.118]> <20020310175626.A18718@freebie.xs4all.nl> <a6g7sp$2ect$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:15:53PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > It could be that the DS10 was sufficiently catatonic to not react to
> > a break (how likely is that in the first place? I was looking at a hard
> > lockup).
> 
> If you experience one of the lockups that currently plague
> -CURRENT/alpha, the machine won't react to break, ctrl-alt-esc, or
> anything else except HALT and RESET.
> 
> > Now that I followed Drew's suggestion to
> > 
> > <quote>
> > I suggest reverting rev 1.61 of alpha/alpha/interrupt.c (eg, disable
> > interrupt thread preemption).
> > </quote>
> > 
> > I have not seen a lockup anymore.
> 
> Neither have I, but I have only been running with it for a day, and
> it has previously managed to survive for up to two days without
> locking up.

Well, I had a close to 100% lockup or panic chance when I ran a make
release. I just completed a succesful buildworld, and will subsequently
run a make release.

W/

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