From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: hang, prop_norm_single involved
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:30:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186673432.20108.32.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186663502.20108.28.camel@twins>
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:45 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:10 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > LTP run reproducably hangs during rwtest01 test
> > rwtest -N rwtest01 -c -q -i 60s -f sync 10%25000:rs-sync=$$
> > Calltrace is always the same:
> >
> [root@opteron ~]# PATH=/testcases/bin/:$PATH /testcases/bin/rwtest -N rwtest01 -c -q -i 60s -f sync 10%25000:rs-sync=$$
> rwtest01 1 PASS : Test passed
> [root@opteron ~]# PATH=/testcases/bin/:$PATH /testcases/bin/rwtest -N rwtest01 -c -q -i 60s -f sync 10%25000:rs-sync=$$
>
> I can reproduce, but not always.
>
> Also, since the task->dirties member is initialized in fork.c this
> should either _always_ happen or never. So this does point to some
> memory corruption, ->dirties is the very last member of the task struct.
>
> /me goes try with slab_debug,...
to no avail, banging head against the wall what is happening here.
Andrew, could you:
# mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks.patch
while I try to figure this one out?
That seems to make the unhappies I could reproduce here go away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-09 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 11:10 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: hang, prop_norm_single involved Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-09 12:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-09 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-08-09 12:51 ` Cornelia Huck
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