Re: [PATCH] race condition in procfs

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:04 +0100, Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
> 2005/11/29, Grzegorz Nosek <grzegorz.nosek@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Oh well, I got another oops in the very same place with the patch
> > applied. So now I surrounded the check with
> > read_[un]lock(&tasklist_lock) and added a check to do_task_stat (both
> > now have a printk). If it builds, boots and doesn't crash, I'll post
> > the patch.
> 
> Froze solid a minute after booting :( netconsole didn't log anything
> either. Back to the drawing board.

Have you seen this crash the vanilla kernel?  What exactly are you doing
to see the crash? If you have a script or something, could you post it.
I could spend some time helping you debug it too on one of my SMP boxes.

-- Steve


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