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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.15-rc5 soft-lockup in dentry_kill
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:42:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512154230.GD18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA480wkD1xhWbhPVGoHeG=T3F3zeEwAPbEatUmmX_L5h-w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 09:21:53AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We got a report[1] of udevd hanging up in a soft lockup with 3.15-rc5
> over the weekend.  The backtrace is below.  I know there were a number
> of recent changes here, so hopefully this triggers someone's memory.

Reproducer would be nice...  Incidentally, kernfs ->d_revalidate() looks
like a massive source of contention - it grabs a system-wide mutex all
the time, and I'd like to see profiles on the loads that go anywhere near
that sucker.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-12 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-12 13:21 3.15-rc5 soft-lockup in dentry_kill Josh Boyer
2014-05-12 15:42 ` Al Viro [this message]

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