| Date | Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:58:10 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.25 |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10815 > > Subject : 2.6.26-rc4: RIP find_pid_ns+0x6b/0xa0 > > Submitter : Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> > > Date : 2008-05-27 09:23 (41 days old) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/27/9 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/14/87 > > Handled-By : Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/28/16 > > This one is the same thing that is reported as unresolved, and no, I > don't think that existing patch was ever really tested to fix > anything. Paul? > > I suspect SRCU will need to be simply marked BROKEN for now, because > nobody knows what the problem Alexey sees is. Apparently it's been > seen by a few other people too.
I'm not sure it's directly related to SRCU - it can change timings and freeing patterns enough to tickle other bugs. Since Alexey Dobriyan has reported it - are perhaps namespaces in use during this stress-test? Maybe it's some namespaces related bug that is more easily reproduced under SRCU - namespaces is not a commonly tested feature.
Also, i've been running rcutorture stress-tests on a number of test-systems ever since this got reported (and they are running currently as well) and cannot see it - neither could Paul reproduce it.
( and Paul is very good in producing RCU related problems - he's triggered and fixed many RCU related problems that no-one else saw before. )
Ingo
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