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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Grzegorz Nosek <grzegorz.nosek@gmail.com>
Cc: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] race condition in procfs
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:28:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133274524.6328.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <121a28810511290604m68c56398t@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:04 +0100, Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
> 2005/11/29, Grzegorz Nosek <grzegorz.nosek@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Oh well, I got another oops in the very same place with the patch
> > applied. So now I surrounded the check with
> > read_[un]lock(&tasklist_lock) and added a check to do_task_stat (both
> > now have a printk). If it builds, boots and doesn't crash, I'll post
> > the patch.
> 
> Froze solid a minute after booting :( netconsole didn't log anything
> either. Back to the drawing board.

Have you seen this crash the vanilla kernel?  What exactly are you doing
to see the crash? If you have a script or something, could you post it.
I could spend some time helping you debug it too on one of my SMP boxes.

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-29 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-29  7:17 [PATCH] race condition in procfs Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29  8:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-29  8:38   ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 13:25     ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:04       ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:28         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2005-11-29 14:39           ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:49             ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 14:41               ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-30 15:14                 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 15:29                   ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-30 16:25                     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 17:23                       ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-12-01 20:38                         ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 15:22   ` [PATCH] shrinks dentry struct Eric Dumazet
2005-11-30  2:06     ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-30  2:14       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-30  2:43         ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-30  6:56         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-03  1:15     ` [PATCH] remove unused blkp field in percpu_data Eric Dumazet
2005-12-13 18:03     ` [PATCH] shrinks dentry struct Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-13 18:24       ` Eric Dumazet

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