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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.25
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:06:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080710180620.GA30844@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080710173459.GA11648@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> cool! :)
> 
> (hm, could anyone please resend Nick's original mail? The original one 
> is not in my lkml folder nor on lkml.org - only the quoted one.)

ok, got the mail now now:

| | Annoyed this wasn't a crazy obscure error in the algorithm I could 
| | fix :) [...]

Paul recently ran a formal proof against all sorts of RCU details (and 
found and fixed a few obscure races that way that no-one ever 
triggered), so i'd be quite surprised if we found anything in the core 
algorithm :-)

| | [...] I spent all day debugging it and had to make a special test 
| | case (rcutorture didn't seem to trigger it), and a big RCU state 
| | logging infrastructure to log millions of RCU state transitions and 
| | events. Oh well.

nice debugging!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

i'm wondering why rcutorture didnt trigger it. I do run !HOTPLUG + 
RCU_PREEMPT kernels and never saw this. Nor did Paul. That aspect is 
weird.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08 21:37 Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-09  4:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-09 14:35   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found] ` <200807101725.36175.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2008-07-10  9:03   ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-07-10 11:02   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-10 17:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-10 17:34       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-10 18:06         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-11  4:11           ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-01 21:09             ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-01 21:09           ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]           ` <20080710204157.GG6877@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-08-01 21:09             ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-01 21:09   ` Paul E. McKenney

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