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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net>
Cc: Michael Geithe <warpy@gmx.de>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-bk4 and kernel/futex.c:542
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:24:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026112415.GA21015@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041026133126.1b44fb38@mango.fruits.de>


* Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:35:50 +0200
> Michael Geithe <warpy@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > here are some error messages after reboot in my logs.
> > 
> > Badness in futex_wait at kernel/futex.c:542
> 
> Hey Ingo,
> 
> this futex.c:542 looks familiar to me (see the BUG logs for RP-V0.2). Dunno
> if it's coincidence though. Just guessing they might be correlated.

yeah, it definitely looks like there is some futex race that the
PREEMPT_REALTIME kernel triggers in no time. (this is because the
locking in the PREEMPT_REALTIME kernel is equivalent to an SMP system
with an infinite number of CPUs and will trigger the same races.)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-26  9:35 2.6.10-rc1-bk4 and kernel/futex.c:542 Michael Geithe
2004-10-26 11:31 ` Florian Schmidt
2004-10-26 11:24   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-10-26 11:38     ` Michael Geithe
2004-10-26 12:04       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-26 18:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-26 17:21     ` Michal Schmidt

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