Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Ingo Molnar]

* Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Right, and it reproduces in 3.10 as well, so it's not really a 
> new thing.
> 
> What's odd is that I don't remember seeing this bug so long in 
> the past, I'll try bisecting trinity rather than the kernel - 
> it's the only other thing that changed.

So I think DaveJ mentioned it that Trinity recently changed its 
test task count and is now more aggressively loading the system. 
Such a change might have made a dormant, resource limits related 
bug or load dependent race more likely.

I think at this point it would also be useful to debug the hang 
itself directly: using triggered printks and kgdb and drilling 
into all the data structures to figure out why the system isn't 
progressing.

If the bug triggers in a VM (which your testing uses) the failed 
kernel state ought to be a lot more accessible than bare metal.

That it triggers in a VM, and if it's the same bug as DaveJ's, 
that also makes the hardware bug theory a lot less likely.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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