Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:26:58 +0300 | From | Faidon Liambotis <> | Subject | Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes? |
| |
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:56:16PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:45:25PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 14:50 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > > > > > thanks for the patch! I'll put this on our testing boxes... > > > > > > > > With a patch that frobs the starting value close to overflowing I hope, > > > > otherwise we'll not hear from you in like 7 months ;-) > > > > > > > > > Are You going to push this upstream so we can ask Greg to push this to > > > > > -stable? > > > > > > > > Yeah, I think we want to commit this with a -stable tag, Ingo? > > > > > > yeah - and we also want a Reported-by tag and an explanation of how > > > it can crash and why it matters in practice. I can then stick it into > > > the urgent branch for Linus. (probably will only hit upstream in the > > > merge window though.) > > > > Has this been pushed or has the problem been solved somehow? Time is > > against us on this bug as more boxes will crash as they reach 200 days > > of uptime... > > > > In any case, feel free to use me as a Reported-by, my full report of the > > problem being <20110430173905.GA25641@tty.gr>. > > > > FWIW and if I understand correctly, my symptoms were caused by *two* > > different bugs: > > a) the 54 bits wraparound at 208 days that Peter fixed above, > > b) a kernel crash at ~215 days related to RT tasks, fixed by > > 305e6835e05513406fa12820e40e4a8ecb63743c (already in -stable). > > So, what do I do here as part of the .32-longterm kernel? Is there a > fix that is in Linus's tree that I need to apply here? > > confused,
Is this even pushed upstream? I checked Linus' tree and the proposed patch is *not* merged there. I'm not really sure if it was fixed some other way, though. I thought this was intended to be an "urgent" fix or something?
Regards, Faidon
| |