Re: perf: perf_fuzzer quickly locks up on 4.15-rc7

From: Vince Weaver
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 10:26:26 EST


On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> I'm seeing things like:
>
> Cannot open /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events
>
> this is likely caused by me not having anything mounted there. Rostedt
> provided the magic incantation to make that work, I'll go try now.

The perf_fuzzer krpobe code is possibly really out of date, I haven't
really kept up with recent developments and I don't usually fuzz as root.

> At least I seem to have cured all lockdep splats.. of course, the moment
> I hit send on this someone bad is bound to happen.

Should I be trying any of those patches?

Currently I can still lock my machines pretty quickly. I have been doing
some more tests. Machines don't crash if paranoid is "2" but will if
paranoid is "1".

Vince