From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Sl8wP-0002Pu-PZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 01:27:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BA59E07F8; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:26:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FE2E07A8 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so6555211lbb.40 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:25:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=qk/g0/XwYHsFC33iMYlUMcQHN1qCVbpgy7Fr2XK8vuo=; b=zvy8kU5wpKcd7r0qXKVVM4O/JYbyrpEjrOl5sgaJA1Mz88bzAnHNj5XnhZhTDxd0K7 1IaAVJmnM7vxLnCLqWgKNp/yOdzmmb9f57/Y079IbsWXaD/tTQCSvQoHTU8O+vAMpw5R 0VXtHUwG+JG3nF1/tpyDLKnTSdp1qhkaYGKVkXpZfe6Yo59py0hglExZUDcIQJRzrlpQ Vk1rCRecI52C9RJaTAGyvbpZFo0nZ0SFrAuhNRozUrK1OaHbzdLOHX+eIZgaM2cypLId AMiJAn4q8XEZUX7f+jYo9iSxowNoPI8jD+PNQXb55oHlUvlFUGeXDPA9kBJCQZs4CP2g ZRlw== Received: by 10.112.99.98 with SMTP id ep2mr3891987lbb.45.1341105921261; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.77.4 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:25:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:25:01 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4rIfmFWqlmg3vK1e7xxvoEZASC0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstoppable, undeciperable kernel call trace in log To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0d7bbd02-74cb-4ddf-b05d-1805a67d81a3 X-Archives-Hash: 859d044fa9fe24b30b7458b936368c98 On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Please take a look at this clip from /var/log/messages: > > https://paste.lugons.org/show/2679/ > > Can somebody tell me what it means? It never changes, char by char. It > goes on forever, over and over again. At one time I wanted kernel > debugging, but I've returned to menuconfig and turned it off(I thought > ). > > How do I stop this pointless verbosity? Hi, I don't have an answer, but if you google the phrase "rcu_bh detected stall on CPU" you can find many reports similar to yours and maybe some information. Do you have RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y in your kernel config?