From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: perf bug: bad page map
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:13:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118171310.GA28736@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1311181138390.18020@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu>
* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:04:23PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > >
> > > (figured out the minicom issue).
> > >
> > > Anyway while trying to reproduce the last bug I instead got this with
> > > the perf_fuzzer.
> > >
> > > Is it worth continuing to run and report these issues? I'm losing track
> > > of all the open bugs.
> >
> > This is looks like ext4. Not entirely sure how perf ties into this.
>
> It's believable the filesystem could have issues (it's a fuzzer
> machine, so it's had 100+ unclean shutdowns on an SSD drive in the
> past few months) but as far as I know there shouldn't have been any
> filesystem accesses happening at all when the bug triggered.
>
> I thought it might be perf related due to the perf references in the
> backtrace (and since it was being perf-fuzzed at the time).
Maybe the connection is that ext4 has lots of tracepoints?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-18 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 18:04 perf bug: bad page map Vince Weaver
2013-11-18 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-18 15:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-18 16:41 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-18 17:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-11-18 23:05 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-11-19 1:57 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-19 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
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