From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754550Ab1AJSus (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:50:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61461 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754271Ab1AJSur (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:50:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:43:04 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Greg KH Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG , Kay Sievers , Dhaval Giani , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [BUG stable, 2.6.32.27] sched: delayed cleanup of user_struct Message-ID: <20110110184303.GA12393@redhat.com> References: <4D2AB8F7.7030506@profihost.ag> <20110110114913.GA22298@redhat.com> <20110110123630.GA27057@redhat.com> <4D2AFFB5.5000807@profihost.ag> <20110110133545.GA30163@redhat.com> <4D2B113A.2060303@profihost.ag> <20110110140817.GA31708@redhat.com> <4D2B1658.20201@profihost.ag> <20110110182317.GA16694@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110110182317.GA16694@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/10, Greg KH wrote: > > Tell us about what? I'm totally confused here, what is the problem? Please look at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129466345327931 I think that free_user's delayed logic is buggy, and the traces from Stefan seems to confirm the theory. As Mike suggests, we can just remove the deprecated USER_SCHED code and forget about this problem. Oleg.