From: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"MINOURA Makoto" <minoura@valinux.co.jp>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
stable@kernel.org, "Hervé Commowick" <hcommowick@exosec.fr>,
"john stultz" <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Rand@jasper.es, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:26:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110904232657.GC6749@tty.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110830223829.GB17450@kroah.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-05 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 8:26 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes? Nikola Ciprich
2011-04-28 18:34 ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2011-04-29 10:02 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-04-30 9:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-04-30 11:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-04-30 11:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-04-30 12:32 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-04-30 12:02 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-04-30 15:57 ` Greg KH
2011-04-30 16:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-30 16:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-04-30 18:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-04-30 17:39 ` Faidon Liambotis
2011-04-30 20:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-05-14 19:04 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-05-14 20:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-05-14 20:59 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-14 23:13 ` Nicolas Carlier
2011-05-15 22:56 ` Faidon Liambotis
2011-05-16 6:49 ` Apollon Oikonomopoulos
2011-06-28 2:25 ` john stultz
2011-06-28 5:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-06-28 6:19 ` Apollon Oikonomopoulos
2011-07-06 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-12 1:18 ` MINOURA Makoto / 箕浦 真
2011-07-12 1:40 ` john stultz
2011-07-12 2:49 ` MINOURA Makoto / 箕浦 真
2011-07-12 4:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-07-15 0:35 ` john stultz
2011-07-15 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15 10:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15 18:03 ` john stultz
2011-07-15 10:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15 17:59 ` john stultz
2011-07-21 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-21 12:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-21 12:50 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-07-21 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-21 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-21 19:32 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-08-25 18:56 ` Faidon Liambotis
2011-08-30 22:38 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-09-04 23:26 ` Faidon Liambotis [this message]
2011-10-23 18:31 ` Ruben Kerkhof
2011-10-23 22:07 ` Greg KH
2011-10-25 22:44 ` john stultz
2011-10-25 23:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-12-02 23:45 ` Greg KH
2011-12-03 0:02 ` john stultz
2011-12-03 1:02 ` Greg KH
2011-12-03 7:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-12-05 16:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-26 18:21 ` Ruben Kerkhof
2011-07-21 19:25 ` Nikola Ciprich
2011-07-21 19:37 ` john stultz
2011-07-21 19:53 ` john stultz
2011-05-06 3:12 ` [stable] " Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-13 22:08 ` Nicolas Carlier
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