Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem)

Andres Freund
2009-07-07T13:22:22Z

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:18:03 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:40:16AM +0100, Joao Correia wrote:
> > I am now running 2.6.31-rc2 for a couple of hours, no freeze.
> > Let me know what/if i can help with tracking down the original source
> > of the problem.
> OK, so we know it's only about timers. Here is another tiny patch
> (the previous one should be removed), which could tell (with oops) if
> there's something while migrating. Anyway, the bug should be back :-(
How do we know this? It still could be a race uncovered by timer migration,
right?

Andres

PS: You forgot the patch ;-)