Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols

Steve Lord
2005-06-14T13:34:55Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stephen Lord <lord@xfs.org> wrote:
>
>>Pozsár Balázs wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:23:20AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
>> >
>> >>I think this is not actually module loading itself, but a problem
>> >>between the fork/exec/wait code in nash and the kernel.
>> >
>> >
>> > I do not use nash, only bash, so this is not a nash-specific issue.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I disabled hyperthreading and things started working, so are there any
>> HT related scheduling bugs right now?
>
>
> There haven't been any scheduler changes for some time. There have been a
> few low-level SMT changes I think.
>
> Are you able to identify which kernel version broke it?
>

Still have not narrowed this down too far, disabling SMT made no
difference, disabling SMP did, which I was expecting.

Steve