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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ryan Hope <rmh3093@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:12:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213863122.16944.257.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48f7fe350806181415l4eba61b3i1d206de03147575e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:15 -0400, Ryan Hope wrote:
> I applied the following patches from 2.6-26-rc5-mm3 to 2.6.26-rc6 and
> they caused a hardlock under heavy IO:

What kind of machine, how much memory, how many spindles, what
filesystem and what is heavy load?

Furthermore, try the NMI watchdog with serial/net-console to capture its
output.

> x86-implement-pte_special.patch
> mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast.patch
> mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch
> mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-2.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-2-fix-fix.patch
> x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-warning.patch
> dio-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
> splice-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
> x86-support-1gb-hugepages-with-get_user_pages_lockless.patch
> #
> mm-readahead-scan-lockless.patch
> radix-tree-add-gang_lookup_slot-gang_lookup_slot_tag.patch
> #mm-speculative-page-references.patch: clameter saw bustage
> mm-speculative-page-references.patch
> mm-speculative-page-references-fix.patch
> mm-speculative-page-references-fix-fix.patch
> mm-speculative-page-references-hugh-fix3.patch
> mm-lockless-pagecache.patch
> mm-spinlock-tree_lock.patch
> powerpc-implement-pte_special.patch
> 
> I am on an x86_64. I dont know what other info you need...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-18 21:15 [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO Ryan Hope
2008-06-18 21:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-19 14:45   ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-20  0:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-19  8:12 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-06-19  8:19   ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-19 14:52     ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-19 20:31     ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-20 14:33     ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-22 14:37     ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-22 15:07       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-22 15:18         ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23  2:29           ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-23  3:51             ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23  3:56               ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-23 11:54               ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-23 13:05                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24  0:13                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-24 15:12                     ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 15:32                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24 15:57                         ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 16:12                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24 16:23                             ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 18:01                               ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23 23:48             ` Zan Lynx

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