Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86, ticketlock: spin_unlock_wait() can livelock

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Dec 01 2014 - 17:10:19 EST


On 12/01, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Can you point to the report that you
> think this might be the cause of?

Please look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128995

but let me repeat, so far this is just my speculation. Plus this is
the old rhel6 kernel.

Oleg.

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