From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
To: "Woegerer, Paul" <Paul_Woegerer@mentor.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: lttng-modules may trigger deadlock in the timekeeping subsystem with Linux <= 3.10.13, <= 3.11.2
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:19:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381789179.1665.3.camel@empanada> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381768366.19281.64.camel@empanada>
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 11:32 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 17:54 +0200, Woegerer, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > looking at the following commits shows that the current version of
> > lttng-modules 2.3.x can trigger a deadlock in the timekeeping subsystem
> > of Linux.
> >
> > http://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-modules.git;a=commit;h=fc8216ae9ec5d18172d8227d179475e7cc1fb45c
> > http://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-modules.git;a=commit;h=9998f5216f4641a79e158135c4c1658dcc6cd2d8
> > http://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-modules.git;a=commit;h=e14bf96416c39675a5f785b032d1c5279020b93d
> >
> > This is caused by a bug in the kernel that was introduced in 3.10. The
> > problem is already fixed in Linux 3.10.14, 3.11.3 and 3.12. See:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137894350929349
> >
> > lttng-modules 2.3.2 contains preprocessor-code that makes sure that
> > building of lttng-modules fails for the unlucky combinations of kernel
> > and lttng-modules. The problem is when we update our lttng-modules 2.3.0
> > to 2.3.2 then we would have lttng-modules failing to build for our qemu*
> > MACHINEs.
> >
> > Any recommendations on how we should address this ?
> >
>
> Probably just get Bruce to update linux-yocto-3.10 to 3.10.14, or pull
> the specific commit that fixes it in.
>
Adding Bruce to Cc:
Tom
> Tom
>
> > Many thanks,
> > Paul
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 15:54 lttng-modules may trigger deadlock in the timekeeping subsystem with Linux <= 3.10.13, <= 3.11.2 Woegerer, Paul
2013-10-14 16:32 ` Tom Zanussi
2013-10-14 22:19 ` Tom Zanussi [this message]
2013-10-14 22:50 ` Bruce Ashfield
2013-10-15 6:59 ` Woegerer, Paul
2013-10-15 6:50 ` Woegerer, Paul
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