Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem)

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:08:52 +0200

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:11:27PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:57:42 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:34:07PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > ...
> > > Testing wether its triggerable inside a vm might be interesting...
> > Probably similarly to testing without this patch or even less. Maybe
> > I should've warned you but this type of bugs in -rc with possible
> > memory or stack overwrites might be fatal for your data (at least).
> Fortunately all the data on that machine should either be replaceable or 
> regularly backuped.
> 
> Will test later today if that patch bugs.

If you didn't start yet, it would be nice to use this, btw:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU = N
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS = Y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS = Y

Thanks,
Jarek P.