linux-kernel - Re: ipc-msg broken again on 3.11-rc7?

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Date:	Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:57:10 +0200
From:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
To:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave.bueso@...il.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Gonzalez <jgonzalez@...ets.cl>
Subject: Re: ipc-msg broken again on 3.11-rc7?

On 09/03/2013 10:44 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> b) Could you check that it is not just a performance regression?
>>       Does ./msgctl08 1000 16 hang, too?
> Nope that doesn't hang. The minimal configuration that hangs reliably is msgctl
> 50000 2
>
> With this config there are 3 processes.
> ...
>    555   554 root     S     1208  0.4   0  0.0 ./msgctl08 50000 2
>    554   551 root     S     1208  0.4   0  0.0 ./msgctl08 50000 2
>    551   496 root     S     1208  0.4   0  0.0 ./msgctl08 50000 2
> ...
>
> [ARCLinux]$ cat /proc/551/stack
> [<80aec3c6>] do_wait+0xa02/0xc94
> [<80aecad2>] SyS_wait4+0x52/0xa4
> [<80ae24fc>] ret_from_system_call+0x0/0x4
>
> [ARCLinux]$ cat /proc/555/stack
> [<80c2950e>] SyS_msgrcv+0x252/0x420
> [<80ae24fc>] ret_from_system_call+0x0/0x4
>
> [ARCLinux]$ cat /proc/554/stack
> [<80c28c82>] do_msgsnd+0x116/0x35c
> [<80ae24fc>] ret_from_system_call+0x0/0x4
>
> Is this a case of lost wakeup or some such. I'm running with some more diagnostics
> and will report soon ...
What is the output of ipcs -q? Is the queue full or empty when it hangs?
I.e. do we forget to wake up a receiver or forget to wake up a sender?

--
     Manfred
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