netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6 net-next] rhashtable fixes

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:56:51 +0800
From:	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 net-next] rhashtable fixes

On 01/30/2015 05:29 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 01/30/15 at 05:10pm, Ying Xue wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I make sure that my local net-next tree is synchronized to the latest
>> version in which the commit fe6a043c535acfec8f8e554536c87923dcb45097
>> ("rhashtable: rhashtable_remove() must unlink in both tbl and
>> future_tbl") is already contained, and then I manually applied the whole
>> series patches. But when I repeatedly run the test case I originally
>> posted, soft lockup happens. Please see its relevant log:
> 
> Right, I see the same soft lockup. Interestingly I cannot trigger it
> with the rht test code. I can only trigger it with your Netlink socket
> creation stress test. It is definitely related to the deferred worker,
> when I disable growing, then the bug disappears.

Yes, when I disable expansion, the soft lockup also disappears too.

 I think that the
> expansion leaves a race open in which remove cannot find certain entries
> (I verified this by adding a BUG_ON() when rhashtable_remove() could not
> find a match). This then keeps an entry on the list which has already
> been freed.
> 
> However, I think this was present before these fixes but hidden as the
> lockup requires a lot more iterations of your stress test on my
> machine.
> 

If you need to some verification for your new patches or do some
experiments, please let me know, and I can help to do them.

Regards,
Ying
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