linux-kernel - Re: oops in __delayacct_blkio

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Message-ID: <44EDF887.20906@watson.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:05:43 -0400
From:	Shailabh Nagar <nagar@...son.ibm.com>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks with 2.6.18-rc4

Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> 
> 
>>Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>>>https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=200526
>>>
>>
>>Thanks for detecting this.
>>
>>I suspect the oops is caused by a reading of /proc/<tgid>/stat for some task
>>that is late in exit. Currently tsk->delays is being freed up too early (before
>>the tsk is removed from the tasklist).
>>
>>Could you try the patch below ? It was unclear from the bug what userspace
>>actions were being done to reproduce the oops - I suspect some kind of
>>reading of /proc/.../stat for all processes ?
> 
> 
> I dont have a way to trigger it. The commands were 'w' and 'pstree'.

Ok. Using the following two commands allowed the original oops to be
triggered on an 8-way pretty quickly:

while : ; do usleep 10 > /dev/null ; done

while : ; do cat /proc/[0-9]???*/stat ; done

(where the regex for catching the newly forking/exiting tasks
can be adjusted to the right range of ids being spawned by the
first command)

Applying the patch I sent solves the problem. I'm doing some more
testing and will submit the patch formally shortly.

Thanks,
Shailabh




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