Re: 3.12.8 is doing nasty things

[Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>]

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Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, 07:37:55 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2014, 16:30:08 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> > > Next week I'll try 3.13, but since it has the same changes I expect the
> > > same results.
> > 
> > I'm now on 3.13.2 and things are similar. While I did an initial test with
> > 100 invocations of ssh which went flawlessly I now see random process
> > errors again. Examples can be found here:
> > http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=Qsmtp&date=2014-02-11
> > 
> > Normally the reports should have arrived much earlier, but for an unknown
> > reason the resolv.conf (generated by DHCP) was empty, I assume that the
> > DHCP process has failed during while renewing the IP address. The
> > segfaults during the build have not happened with the older kernel.
> 
> I can now confirm that the cache coherency fixes are _not_ the reason for
> those failures I see. I have rebuild 3.13.2 without them and still see
> random segfaults in my dashboards. I'll try the mmap() patch next.

After 2,5 days with 3.13.2 and 0576da2c08e3d332f1b0653030d28ab804585ab6 I have 
not yet seen a single random segfault.

Eike

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