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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: 3.10.16 cgroup css_set_lock deadlock
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:19:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131115081929.GA11530@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131114232529.GB16725@sbohrermbp13-local.rgmadvisors.com>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 05:25:29PM -0600, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> In trying to reproduce the cgroup_mutex deadlock I reported earlier
> in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/11/574 I believe I encountered a
> different issue that I'm also unable to understand. This machine
> started out reporting some soft lockups that look to me like they are
> on a read_lock(css_set_lock):
> 
...
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8109253c>]  [<ffffffff8109253c>] cgroup_attach_task+0xdc/0x7a0
...
>  [<ffffffff81092e87>] attach_task_by_pid+0x167/0x1a0
>  [<ffffffff81092ef3>] cgroup_tasks_write+0x13/0x20

Most likely the bug fixed by ea84753c98a7 ("cgroup: fix to break the
while loop in cgroup_attach_task() correctly").  3.10.19 contains the
backported fix.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 23:25 3.10.16 cgroup css_set_lock deadlock Shawn Bohrer
2013-11-15  8:19 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-11-15 14:53   ` Don Morris
2013-11-16  5:18     ` Tejun Heo

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