Re: regression 4.4: deadlock in with cgroup percpu_rwsem
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jan 19 2016 - 14:38:59 EST
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> No, its not a task_struct. Activating some more debug information did indeed
> revealed several other issues (overwritten redzones etc). Unfortunately I
> only saw the broken things after the facts, so I do not know which code did that.
> When I disabled the cgroup controllers in libvirt I was no longer able to trigger
> the bugs. Still trying to narrow things down.
Hmmm... that's worrying. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC sometimes can catch
these sort of bugs red-handed. Might worth trying.
Thanks.
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tejun