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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	shenghui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched, cgroup: Use exit hook to avoid use-after-free crash
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:04:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1293789859.6839.97.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101229230744.GA10557@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 00:07 +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:25:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > I tried this patch, but it causes a boot crash:
> 
> Hm, indeed. (I get a crash in qemu, but not on the host machine.)
> 
> qemu -enable-kvm -kernel kernel-build/arch/x86/boot/bzImage  -append "root=/dev/sda1 debug sched_debug ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled console=ttyS0 init=/bin/systemd" -hda systemd.img -serial stdio -m 1G -vnc :0
> 
> does not crash here, but
> 
> qemu -enable-kvm -kernel kernel-build/arch/x86/boot/bzImage  -append "root=/dev/sda1 debug sched_debug ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled console=ttyS0" -hda systemd.img -serial stdio -m 1G -vnc :0
> 
> does.
> 
> I'm attaching the config (what I already sent earlier in this thread)
> and the output of the above two commands just in case that helps Peter.

Your crash seems to be completely independent of Peter's patch.  It
crashes here with your image/config/2.6.36 here regardless, and not 100%
repeatably.  Sometimes it boots, sometimes not.

	-Mike



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-31 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29  7:10 [PATCH] avoid race condition in pick_next_task_fair in kernel/sched_fair.c shenghui
2010-06-29 10:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-29 11:24   ` shenghui
2010-06-29 11:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-29 12:44       ` shenghui
2010-12-19  2:03   ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-22  0:22     ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-22  8:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22  8:41         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22  8:41         ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-22  9:07           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 13:31             ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-22 14:00               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 14:11                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 15:14                   ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-22 15:25                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 17:08                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 17:16                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-12-22 17:25                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 20:36                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-23  2:08                         ` Yong Zhang
2010-12-23 12:12                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-23 12:33                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-23 18:24                               ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                                 ` <1293132304.6798.6.camel@marge.simson.net>
     [not found]                                   ` <1293132862.25981.22.camel@laptop>
     [not found]                                     ` <1293187425.7138.2.camel@marge.simson.net>
     [not found]                                       ` <1293188091.25981.200.camel@laptop>
     [not found]                                         ` <1293192999.18035.4.camel@marge.simson.net>
2010-12-24 15:59                                           ` [PATCH] sched, cgroup: Use exit hook to avoid use-after-free crash Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-24 16:40                                             ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-24 16:48                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-24 17:07                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-24 17:24                                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-25 17:55                                             ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-25 20:59                                             ` Paul Menage
2011-01-03  7:06                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-29 15:25                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-12-29 23:07                                               ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-31 10:04                                                 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2010-12-31 10:46                                                   ` Miklos Vajna
2010-12-31  8:32                                               ` [PATCH] " Mike Galbraith
2011-01-03  8:21                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:19                                                 ` [tip:sched/core] sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-01-04 14:57                                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-04 19:06                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-19 19:04                                             ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched, cgroup: Use exit hook to avoid use-after-free crash tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-22 21:11                       ` [PATCH] avoid race condition in pick_next_task_fair in kernel/sched_fair.c Miklos Vajna
2010-12-22 23:39                         ` Miklos Vajna

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