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

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Message-ID: <20090708080852.GC3148@ami.dom.local>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:08:52 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>
Cc:	Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@...il.com>,
	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 Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:11:27PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:57:42 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > ...
> > > Testing wether its triggerable inside a vm might be interesting...
> > Probably similarly to testing without this patch or even less. Maybe
> > I should've warned you but this type of bugs in -rc with possible
> > memory or stack overwrites might be fatal for your data (at least).
> Fortunately all the data on that machine should either be replaceable or 
> regularly backuped.
> 
> Will test later today if that patch bugs.

If you didn't start yet, it would be nice to use this, btw:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU = N
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS = Y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS = Y

Thanks,
Jarek P.
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