linux-kernel - Re: WARNING in get_pi

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Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:45:25 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     syzbot 
        <bot+2af19c9e1ffe4d4ee1d16c56ae7580feaee75765@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc:     dvhart@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: WARNING in get_pi_state

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:38:12AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:31:34AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > And of course, now it went *splat*, lemme continue staring..
> 
> PEBKAC, turns out I was running the kernel without the patch in, and it
> only took 3100 seconds to trigger the splat..
> 
> I am now actually running the kernel with the patch in, I'll leave the
> machine running it for a few hours.

OK, I let the kernel+patch run over night and it still lives. That's
almost 22 hours of running the repro without issue.