On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:35:04AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > note that Steven has a dual-core Athlon64 X2 system. Steven, do you get
> > the crash even with maxcpus=1?
> >
>
> Actually Ingo, this happened on my UP test machine, a 368MHz Pentium.
>
> But unfortunately, it so far only happened once, and I've been trying to
> recreate it, with no success. The test that crashed it was running 10
> tasks that would read the entire filesystem. I was debugging another bug
> (something specific to my kernel, or maybe -rt) when I hit this bug.
> Looking at it, it seemed to not be related to the changes I made. Perhaps
> it could be related to your changes?
>
I normally test the sysfs races by running these two loops simultenously
on a SMP box. Basically running these will create/delete sysfs files and
directories and also do readdir.
while true; do insmod drivers/net/dummy.ko; rmmod dummy; done
while true; do find /sys/class/net/dummy0/ | xargs cat > /dev/null; done
--
Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Software Labs,
Bangalore, India
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Phone: 91-80-25044990
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