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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net>, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: futexes: Still infinite loop in get_futex_key() in 2.6.31-rc4
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6DAEA4.9090107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248701812.6987.1637.camel@twins>

Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:45 +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> 
>> Good question, but as this happens on a production machine, I cannot
>> easily change the installation to check this.
> 
> Uhm, but you do run .31-rc4 on it? :-)
> 
>> Attaching an strace to the process gives just
>>
>> # strace -p 12886
>> Process 12886 attached - interrupt to quit
>>
>> and nothing further.
> 
> Bugger.. how easy it is to reproduce?
> --

Strange thing is that "ps ax" doesnt use threads at all.

Stack trace seems to show mm_release() calls futex code,
but this part should not be called when a mono threaded program
exits (its clear_child_tid should be NULL at this point)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-27 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-27  8:00 futexes: Still infinite loop in get_futex_key() in 2.6.31-rc4 Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-27 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-27 12:16   ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-27 12:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-27 12:45       ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-27 13:36         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-27 13:41           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-07-27 14:00           ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-27 16:00             ` Ray Lee
2009-07-29  6:22           ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-29  9:57             ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-29 10:01               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-29 10:26               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-29 10:56                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-29 14:29                   ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-30 14:13                   ` Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-31 10:00                   ` [ PATCH] execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid Eric Dumazet

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