Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 (possibly causedby netem)

From: Andres Freund
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 07:44:02 EST


On 07/02/2009 01:11 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
On 07/02/2009 12:12 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:30:31AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:37:24AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
...
So I tried - and I did not catch any lockdep output before the crash.
Unfortunately I do not have another machine on the same local
network to
catch any messages after the crash... So I could be missing some
warning
(I did synchronous logging though).
Will check with netconsole tomorrow.

Could you try if this patch changes anything?

...and maybe CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP turned off.
Ok. Removed the skb_orphan and turned of CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP. Seemingly
the same game.
I now had another computer to catch the netconsole output. Still no
lockdep warnings.

Unfortunately the other computer was a windows machine with its strange
terminal, so long lines are wrapped at 80cols, but that shouldn't be too
bad.
I will start trying to place the issue by testing with existing kernels between 2.6.30 and now.

Andres
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