Re: Futex hang/lockup problem in 2.6.30+ on AMD64

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:53:01AM -0800, Gong Cheng wrote:
>Hi guys,
>    It has been a little while when we were hit by the problem, and from then I didn't touch that area, so forgive me if I can not answer all your questions.
>    Basically after switching from 2.6.31.1 and 2.6.31.4, the problem seems to have gone away. 
>    It was very reproducible for us in 2.6.31.1 (if coupled with glibc 2.5.34.1 or any version around. I believe as long as it was after the private futex work in glibc).  
>After the switch, we might have had another similar occurrence but it was not clear if was the same problem. Since it didn't occur again, we let it go. 
>   now we are in 2.6.32.1, and it is still running fine. So the problem is either completely gone with the newer kernels. Or it is just much less likely to happen.
>That is pretty much all I can provide, and hope it helps.
>

Ok, thanks for your confirm.

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