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

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:19:16 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@...il.com>
Cc:	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>,
	Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 (
	possibly?caused by netem)

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:53:51AM +0100, Joao Correia wrote:
> Hello
> 
> System freezes immediatly after grub, no init processing at all, after
> applying those patches on top of vanilla 2.6.30 on my box.
...
> doesnt work on top of 2.6.30. It complains, while compiling, that
> sysctl_timer_migration is not defined. So i just replaced that call
> with return 1, like on the not debug case. Hope this doesnt defeat
> your test case, but it wouldnt compile otherwise. Probably that was
> just introduced after 2.6.30?

Yes, my bad, sorry. I've found 2 more patches from this series; can't
guarantee that's all, but seems to work & migrate within my one and
only core without any problems ;-)

Jarek P. 

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