linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 6.8-rc process is unable to exit and consumes a lot of cpu

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Message-ID: <ZdqWYplgbHL7xSch@duke.home>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:22:42 -0500
From: Al Viro <viro@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
	"Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Matt Heon <mheon@...hat.com>, Ed Santiago <santiago@...hat.com>,
	Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Holzinger <pholzing@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 6.8-rc process is unable to exit and consumes a lot
 of cpu

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 03:43:43PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 23:00, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <regressions@...mhuis.info> wrote:
> >
> > TWIMC, the quoted mail apparently did not get delivered to Al (I got a
> > "48 hours on the queue" warning from my hoster's MTA ~10 hours ago).
> 
> Al's email has been broken for the last almost two weeks - the machine
> went belly-up in a major way.
> 
> I bounced the email to his kernel.org email that seems to work, but I
> also think Al ends up being busy trying to get through everything else
> he missed, in addition to trying to get the machine working again...

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that it's fixed by #fixes^ (7e4a205fe56b) in
my tree; I'll send a pull request, both for #fixes and #fixes.pathwalk.rcu