Feisty reported the following at 2:50 into the test:

Event at 11:50 - 2Hrs50 Time to fail

1. Application output and data gathered:

The WatchDog_for_SSULoad process "hung" at 11:50.  The 'ps -eyl'
command shows its channel as rwsem_.  So, I'd say this kernel still
has a locking problem.

At Thu Mar 15 11:50:16 EDT 2007, the following non-stop graphics 
images are running:


 for a total of 0 graphics test processes

0
DEBUG: number of active processes   = 66
DEBUG: number of graphics processes = 0


DEBUG: Displaying contents of slay_crashme_images.sh at 
Thu Mar 15 11:50:31 EDT 2007


 586 passes have been completed; waiting for
 66 active processes to finish.


At Thu Mar 15 11:50:31 EDT 2007, the following non-stop 
graphics images are running:

greg@wgs94-206:~/systest$ ps -eyl | grep 10832
S  1001 10832 10713  0  75   0  1184   439 compat pts/2    00:00:09 SSULoad_master.
D  1001 15090 10832  0  78   0  1112   422 rwsem_ pts/2    00:00:15 WatchDog_for_SS



2. Console Output

[79845.293083] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
[79845.473777] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000000c6e
[79845.646488] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fffff800c2afc000


3. Relevant dmesg data

[79845.293083] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
[79845.473777] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 0000000000000c6e
[79845.646488] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fffff800c2afc000
[79845.812067]               \|/ ____ \|/
[79845.812083]               "@'/ .. \`@"
[79845.812090]               /_| \__/ |_\
[79845.812098]                  \__U_/
[79845.812118] WatchDog_for_SS(15090): Oops [#1]
[79845.812138] TSTATE: 0000004411001606 TPC: 0000000000452c88 TNPC: 0000000000545d40 Y: 00000000    Not tainted
[79845.812179] TPC: <copy_process+0x570/0xfc0>
[79845.812195] g0: fffff803b24a7441 g1: 0000000000000000 g2: 0000000000000071 g3: 0000000000000000
[79845.812219] g4: fffff805e77fa8e0 g5: fffff8000e59a580 g6: fffff803b24a4000 g7: fffff802e091eac8
[79845.812241] o0: 0000000000000001 o1: fffff800893209e8 o2: 0000000000000000 o3: 000000021e550c50
[79845.812262] o4: 0000000000000000 o5: 0000000000000000 sp: fffff803b24a7491 ret_pc: 0000000000452c84
[79845.812287] RPC: <copy_process+0x56c/0xfc0>
[79845.812306] l0: fffff802e091eac8 l1: fffff803c8f74da0 l2: fffff800c23cde78 l3: 0000000001200014
[79845.812330] l4: fffff80481c2d480 l5: fffff800893209c0 l6: fffff807fa556de0 l7: 0000000000830400
[79845.812353] i0: fffff803c8f74da0 i1: 00000000fff3b970 i2: fffff803b24a7f60 i3: 0000000000000000
[79845.812377] i4: fffff80354dbe160 i5: 00000000f7f16718 i6: fffff803b24a75b1 i7: 0000000000453720
[79845.812402] I7: <do_fork+0x48/0x200>
[79845.812414] Caller[0000000000453720]: do_fork+0x48/0x200
[79845.812436] Caller[0000000000406c54]: linux_sparc_syscall32+0x3c/0x40
[79845.812471] Caller[0000000000003af2]: 0x3afa
[79845.812515] Instruction DUMP: c25d6018  92056028  4003cc2f <ec586010> c25c2028  82086800  0ac0421c  9205a21c  d05d60e8 
gent@wgs94-206:~$ 


4. Other Information

top shows a 'top' process in a continuous run state

ps aux does not complete and hangs, not breakable with ^C

5. Next Steps

Will reboot the system and rerun the test. Please let me know if there is any additional data you would like me to collect.

cheers ted