linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #10815] 2.6.26-rc4: RIP find_pid

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Date:	Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:32:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #10815] 2.6.26-rc4: RIP find_pid_ns+0x6b/0xa0



On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 
> > Both patches (independently) do not help with rcutortures failures:
> > 
> > [   58.968404] rcu-torture:--- Start of test: nreaders=4 nfakewriters=4 stat_interval=0 verbose=0 test_no_idle_hz=0 shuffle_interval = 5
> > [  159.044524] rcu-torture: rtc: 0000000000000000 ver: 53859 tfle: 0 rta: 53859 rtaf: 18 rtf: 53797 rtmbe: 0
> > [  159.044527] rcu-torture: !!! Reader Pipe:  65565142 4275 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > [  159.044529] rcu-torture: Reader Batch:  65564196 5207 7 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
> > [  159.044530] rcu-torture: Free-Block Circulation:  53858 53853 53846 53843 53834 53825 53816 53808 53803 53797 0
> > [  159.044976] rcu-torture:--- End of test: FAILURE: nreaders=4 nfakewriters=4 stat_interval=0 verbose=0 test_no_idle_hz=0 shuffle_interval = 5
> 
> And the repeat-by is simply running LTP in parallel with rcutorture?
> This is a one-hour run of rcutorture or thereabouts?

Should we mark PREEMPT_RCU as BROKEN for now? I don't know if anybody 
really enables it, but it might be a good idea to make sure people don't 
do so thinking it's good..

		Linus
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