From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: another perf_fuzzer soft lockup
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:17:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140129071731.GA30643@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1401281554010.8613@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu>
* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> After some idle time I've started running the perf_fuzzer again.
>
> It quickly found this lockup on a core2 system running 3.13 (yes, I
> should probably be running 3.14-git but I'd rather wait for rc1
> first).
JFYI, if -git looks too dangerous to you (and I cannot blame you for
that view in the middle of a merge window) then tip:master is usually
a pretty safe substitute for testing, it's the v3.14 perf code on a
v3.13 base.
> It looks like it's stuck in a lock in generic_exec_single() while
> calling perf_event_task_output()?
>
> I'll try to see if I can come up with a test case.
Thanks, those testcases are always very useful!
Ingo
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2014-01-28 21:08 another perf_fuzzer soft lockup Vince Weaver
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