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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:29:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515152952.GA27838@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120515151048.GA6119@google.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:10:48AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
 > >From 4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
 > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:06:19 -0700
 > 
 > Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's
 > process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing
 > on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[].

can you elaborate what 'memory load' means here ?
I'm curious if I can add something to my fuzzing tool to shake out bugs like this.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 17:19 linux-next oops in __lock_acquire for process_one_work Hugh Dickins
2012-05-07 17:57 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-08 13:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-08 16:58     ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-08 17:02       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-08 18:11       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-08 22:31         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-08 22:58           ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-09  9:25             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-09 20:09               ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-10 17:52                 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-14 21:27                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-15 11:11                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 15:10                       ` [PATCH] lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue Tejun Heo
2012-05-15 15:29                         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-05-15 15:31                           ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-15 20:36                             ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-08 18:05     ` linux-next oops in __lock_acquire for process_one_work Hugh Dickins

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