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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG? locking issue(networking?) with latest git
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:38:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080904093854.GA5407@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809041203.07460.denys@visp.net.lb>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:03:07PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > On 03-09-2008 13:22, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> > > I am getting strange lockup, all operations (tc, ifconfig,pppd) after few
> > > days running pppoe-server.
> > >
> > > Programgs getting blocked very strange way, i am not able to kill them
> > > even. Softlockup detection enabled, lock dependencies (except lock
> > > dependency engine debugging), RT mutexes and deadlock detection enabled
> > > too.
> > >
> > > I notice this bug few weeks ago, even before latest patches, and seems it
> > > still remains.
> >
> > Do you mean this didn't happen with some 2.6.27-rc's? (There was quite
> > substantial change in ppp_generic with lock_kernel() in 2.6.27-rc1.)
> I was not able to run early rc's on my pppoe's. Do you suggest to try reverse 
> those changes?

No, I don't think reverting them would be easy enough (except moving
back to 2.6.26). I simply wonder if you think there were some
2.6.27-rc's tried by you, which didn't lockup like this.

> > Alas it shows only some tasks waiting for locks. Maybe it's enough for
> > someone with better ppp knowledge, but unless there is such a response
> > I guess you should better try with PROVE_LOCKING turned on yet.
> It is already turned on.

So I misread this "except lock dependency engine debugging" part. OK,
I'll try to think about it, but any additional logs should be helpful.
BTW, I wonder if it's possible to test this without SMP?

Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-03 11:22 BUG? locking issue(networking?) with latest git Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-04  7:21 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-04  9:03   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-04  9:38     ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2008-09-04  9:46       ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-04 10:02         ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-04 10:11           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-04 14:14           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-04 21:48             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-04 22:43               ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-05  8:29                 ` [PATCH] pkt_sched: Fix qdisc state in net_tx_action() Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-05 10:26                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-05 22:41                   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-09-06 12:02                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-08  1:41                       ` David Miller

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