From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c:130!
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:44:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49766FF0.9040401@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120082946.GC31473@elte.hu>
>>> okay, a testsystem of mine just triggered this crash too.
>>>
>>> Li Zefan, Jaswinder, does the patch below fix it for you?
>>>
>> I'll test it, but I have to run for several hours to confirm it, since
>> the bug is not easy to trigger. :)
>
> yes. It triggered on an old 32-bit dual-socket HyperThreading system for
> me and that is because HyperThreading is very good at triggering narrow
> SMP races. (which this one certainly is)
>
> (I'd expect Nehalem to trigger this TLB flushing race more easily too,
> where HyperThreading made a comeback.)
>
Nothing bad happaned in the last 16+ hours. :)
Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-20 6:29 Li Zefan
2009-01-20 7:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 8:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 8:20 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-20 8:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 13:44 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-21 0:44 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-01-21 1:01 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-20 18:17 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-20 7:56 ` Laurent Riffard
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