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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:34:07 +0200
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Cc: Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com>,
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To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:29:37 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:22:06PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > 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 :-(
> > PS: You forgot the patch ;-)
> Yes, I hope you got it already ;-)
Yes. Can't reboot that machine right now, will test later.

Testing wether its triggerable inside a vm might be interesting...

Andres