On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:03:17PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > >This can happen if a task runs for too long inside the kernel > >holding up context switches or usermode code running on that > >cpu. The fact that RCU grace period eventually happens > >and the dentries are freed means that something intermittently > >holds up RCU. Is this 2.6.10 vanilla or does it have other > >patches in there ? > > The 2.6.10 was modified. All the results with the dcache debugging > patch applied were from vanilla 2.6.14-rc2. > > It's perfectly repeatable as well...every single time I run "rename14" > the OOM killer kicks in. Can you look at that each cpu is running (backtrace) using sysrq ? That may tell us what is holding up RCU. I will look at it myself later. Thanks Dipankar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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