glibc-2.5 test suite hangs/crashes the machine

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:47 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:35 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>> Does that patch fixes it ?
> >>>
> >> tested with kernel .17 and headers from .19 and the build hangs. Still tons of
> >> Zl processes around.
> >>
> >> On the note building with kernel .19 and .19 headers it all goes smooth.
> > 
> > Ok, so there's a different issue from what I've found. You haven't by
> > chance noted what those processes are (which test case typically) ?
> > Also, there's a sysrq to get a backtrace of all pending processes,
> > though I don't remember which one off the top of my mind, might be
> > useful to have a look though.
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> After discussing with Ben on IRC i applied 69588298188b40ed7f75c98a6fd328d82f23ca21
> to kernel .17 and glibc does build without zombie processes and no hang whatsoever.
> 
> I suggest to push this patch back to the stable kernel trees.

It also need the alignment bits I did though.

Ben.