VERSION/RELEASE: All SMP kernels in RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 REPRODUCIBLE: Yes STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 0) List the PCI devices on your system: $lspci The output will be a long list of devices, in the following format: 00:07.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips an... 1) run the following command (which reads the configuration space): $while [ 1 ] ; do cat /proc/bus/pci/00/07.0 > /dev/null ; done & Notice how the lspci output is used in this command - 00:07.0 becomes /proc/bus/pci/00/07.0 (feel to use a different device or more than one) 2) start and stop X windows (using xinit) between 3 and 15 times ACTUAL RESULTS: The system enters a completely unresponsive state and must be rebooted. EXPECTED RESULTS: Interaction with the PCI configuration space should not alter system stability and should not cause a system crash. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This problem has been identified and tested in numerous hardware environments (dual PIII & dual XEON, different motherboards). In all of these situations (using an SMP kernel), activity in the configuration space of the PCI bus, along with the initialization of X, caused the system to crash. This test was also run on single processor machines and the symptoms were NOT detected.
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