Re: [REGRESSION] 6.8-rc process is unable to exit and consumes a lot of cpu

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Feb 24 2024 - 20:21:42 EST


On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 03:43:43PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 23:00, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > TWIMC, the quoted mail apparently did not get delivered to Al (I got a
> > "48 hours on the queue" warning from my hoster's MTA ~10 hours ago).
>
> Al's email has been broken for the last almost two weeks - the machine
> went belly-up in a major way.
>
> I bounced the email to his kernel.org email that seems to work, but I
> also think Al ends up being busy trying to get through everything else
> he missed, in addition to trying to get the machine working again...

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that it's fixed by #fixes^ (7e4a205fe56b) in
my tree; I'll send a pull request, both for #fixes and #fixes.pathwalk.rcu