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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:476  (tty is NULL)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:00:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212020039.GA8979@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360593750.25941.13.camel@thor.lan>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:42:30AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:44 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 01:33:57PM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 22:00 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > > On 01/18/2013 10:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > Jiri, was there anything on the mailing list that I missed that should
> > > > > have resolved this issue?  I thought it was being worked on, but I can't
> > > > > seem to find any resolution at the moment.
> > > > 
> > > > Somebody had a patchset and promised to repost IIRC. I forgot his name
> > > > though.
> > > > 
> > > > /me back from digging in the mail history.
> > > > 
> > > > Peter Hurley is the name.
> > > > 
> > > > Peter, what happened with your patches in the end, please?
> > > 
> > > The tty subsystem is very resilient to fixing :)
> > > 
> > > The thing I'm working on right now -- which hopefully is the last issue
> > > with the line discipline logic -- occurs with parallel __tty_hangup()
> > > and tty_release().
> > > 
> > > At the moment, I'm trying to narrow the conditions when this happens.
> > 
> > If it helps I seem to be able to reproduce this in just a few seconds by
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                  you get this WARNING from a parallel __tty_hangup?
> 
> Or do you mean simply that you get this WARNING?

Sorry I just mean I'm seeing the warning, I have no idea how.

> > running trinity and hitting Ctrl-C to quit the watchdog.
> 
> Can you reproduce after using the following patch series?
> [PATCH v3 00/23] ldisc fixes

What are they against? I tried Linus' tree and linux-next but they
didn't apply cleanly against either.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-02 15:37 WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:476 (tty is NULL) Dave Jones
2013-01-18 20:53 ` Dave Jones
2013-01-18 21:07   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-19 21:00     ` Jiri Slaby
2013-01-30 18:33       ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-11  2:44         ` Michael Ellerman
2013-02-11 14:42           ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-12  2:00             ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2013-02-12  2:53               ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-12  6:41                 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-02-12 11:34                   ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-17  6:26             ` Shawn Guo

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