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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	 linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: richard@nod.at
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] um: Enable preemption in UML
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:13:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423e8ee5126e1dffda5f8877d07611a21972eea7.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28f0be57-829b-9ddf-7b0d-a6c84932cbda@cambridgegreys.com>

On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 09:01 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> 
> My favorite test which I run on all changes is:
> 
> find /usr -type f -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
> 
> On Debian this forks /bin/cat for each file and does IO on it. That test passes here every time :(

Oh, apart from the splat, it all _works_ fine.

> However, I did not have debug turned on. So, I would not be surprised if something in the debug

OK.

> portion of the config makes the crashes more likely.

It's just a debug warning for me, no real crash.

> Otherwise, each fork is a forced tlb_flush_all, so it is a massive tlb exercise. Any bugs, locking, etc are likely to show up.
> 

Yes, but when does the fork actually happen?

That part confuses me - the fork_handler() seems to be called at various
kind of random points in time after?

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-22  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-22  6:52 [PATCH v5] um: Enable preemption in UML anton.ivanov
2023-09-22  7:27 ` Richard Weinberger
2023-09-22  7:29   ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  7:30 ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  7:38   ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  7:40     ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  8:01       ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  8:13         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2023-09-22  8:40           ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  8:41           ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  8:43             ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  9:04               ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  9:12                 ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  9:06             ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  9:10               ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  9:14                 ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  9:19                   ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22  9:51                     ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22  9:55                       ` Johannes Berg
2023-09-22 10:55                         ` Anton Ivanov
2023-09-22 11:17                           ` Johannes Berg

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