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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > I found a race condition in slab.c, but I'm still trying to figure out > exactly how it's playing out. This has to do with dynamic loading and > unloading of caches. I have a small test case that simulates the > problem at http://home.stny.rr.com/rostedt/tests/sillycaches.tgz good catch! When i converted slab.c to RT i mistakenly thought that SLAB flushing (draining) is only an SMP optimization (which i thus generously disabled), but i forgot about module unloading. This could indeed explain some of the unresolved bugs in the -RT patchset. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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