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SubjectRe: repeatable slab corruption with LTP msgctl08
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:15:37 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:02:00 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:34:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:13:24 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Running current mainline on my old 2-way PIII. Distro is RH FC1. LTP
> > > > version is ltp-full-20070228 (lots of retro-computing there).
> > > >
> > > > Config is at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-vmm.txt
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ./testcases/bin/msgctl08 crashes after ten minutes or so:
> > >
> > > ah, it runs to completion in about ten seconds on 2.6.25, so it'll be
> > > easy for someone to bisect it.
> > >
> > > What's that? Sigh. OK. I wasn't doing anything much anyway.
> >
> > Oh drat. git-bisect tells me that this one-year-old msgctl08's
> > execution time vastly increased when we added
> >
> > commit f7bf3df8be72d98afa84f5ff183e14c1ba1e560d
> > Author: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
> > Date: Tue Apr 29 01:00:39 2008 -0700
> >
> > ipc: scale msgmni to the amount of lowmem
> >
> >
> > But we already knew that, and LTP got changed to fix it.
> >
> > So I was wrong in assuming that the long-execution-time correlates with
> > the slab-corruption bug.
> >
> > And the slab corruption bug takes half an hour to reproduce and an
> > unknown amount of time to not-reproduce. I don't think I'll be able to
> > complete this before I disappear for over a week.
> >
>
> Doing
>
> echo 16 > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
>
> on the tree at the above bisection point
> (f7bf3df8be72d98afa84f5ff183e14c1ba1e560d is most-recently-applied
> patch), msgctl08 runs to completion in 15.7 seconds.
>
> Doing the same thing on 2.6.26-rc5-mm3, msgctl08 also runs to
> completion, in 20.9 seconds. So
>
> - it got slower
>
> - the crash requires the huge value of /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni (1746)

actually, it's 1741.

> to reproduce.
>


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