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SubjectRe: 2.6.32 cgroup regression
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 13:10 -0700, Josh Hunt wrote:
> This commit makes the ltp cpuctl latency test #2 hang indefinitely:
>
> commit b5d9d734a53e0204aab0089079cbde2a1285a38f
> Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Date: Tue Sep 8 11:12:28 2009 +0200
>
> sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()

Ouch. Yeah, that commit is buggy, and never got fixed up in stable.
Reverting it will restore a slightly less buggy, but not very good
situation. Getting the fork problems all fixed up took a while.
(quick fix vs revert didn't help your testcase)

> When I revert this commit the test progresses as it did in 2.6.31. I
> have seen this issue on 2.6.32 and 2.6.32.19. The hang goes away in
> 2.6.33 starting with this commit:
>
> commit 88ec22d3edb72b261f8628226cd543589a6d5e1b
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Wed Dec 16 18:04:41 2009 +0100
>
> sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()

Excellent timing you have. I have a tree of backports, but I wasn't
counting this commit as a must have, merely highly desirable. This
testcase showed that it's a needed fix.

> Even though this appears to be resolved in 2.6.33, I am reporting it
> because 2.6.32 is the "long-term stable release".

Yeah, there are a _lot_ of fixes that should wander back to 32-stable.

> My test system is a single socket dual core amd -
> model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 180
> with 4GB of RAM.
> Kernel config file attached.
>
> The issue is easily reproducible for me by downloading and building ltp,
> then running
> testcases/kernel/controllers/cpuctl/run_cpuctl_latency_test.sh 2
>
> Please let me know if you need any other information to help reproduce
> this issue.

No, the testcase works well. Thanks.

-Mike




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