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

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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:57:26 +0100
From: "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)"
 <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To: Al Viro <viro@...nel.org>, 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 25.02.24 02:22, Al Viro wrote:
> 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,

Thx!

>> 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

Great, thank you, too!

Ciao, Thorsten