Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:57:41 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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On 12/11/2014 05:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote: >> > >> > Is it possible that Dave and myself were seeing the same problem after >> > all? > Could be. You do have commonalities, even if the actual symptoms then > differ. And while it looked different when you could trigger it with > 3.16 but DaveJ couldn't, that's up in the air now that I doubt that > 3.16 really is ok for DaveJ after all.. > > And you might have a better luck bisecting it, since you seem to be > able to trigger your RCU lockup much more quickly (and apparently > reliably? Correct?)
Right, and it reproduces in 3.10 as well, so it's not really a new thing.
What's odd is that I don't remember seeing this bug so long in the past, I'll try bisecting trinity rather than the kernel - it's the only other thing that changed.
Thanks, Sasha
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