linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc7 to 2.6.24-rc8 possible regression

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:28:03 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7 to 2.6.24-rc8 possible regression


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 17:23 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> > No, i am using vanilla kernel. It is one of production machines, and as i 
> > know screen is not using epoll.
> 
> OK, but the trace shows that it is the epoll recursion again.
> 
> > I will try to apply on all my production machines this patch. Sorry if it is 
> > related.
> 
> Well, let's hope that the lockdep annotation or whatever other fix gets
> into mainline sooner than later.  Which reminds me to test my setup
> again which appeared to be able to reproduce the __wake_up recursion on
> my command...

Would be appreciated, I have been waiting on testing feedback because
I'm not fully certain here.

Curious though that this gets reported frequently the last few weeks,
afaics this problem is way old.

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