Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:59:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Vince Weaver <> | Subject | Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace. |
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Interestingly, the 'soft lockups' I was > > seeing all the time on that box seem to have gone into hiding. > > Honestly, I'm somewhat inclined to blame the whole perf situation, and > saying that we hopefully got that fixed. In between the silly do_div() > buglets and all the indications that the time was spent in nmi > handlers, I'd be willing to just ignore them as false positives > brought on by the whole switch to the perf irq..
Did the perf soft lockups go away with 3.11-rc1?
734df5ab549ca44f40de0f07af1c8803856dfb18 finally got committed, and it fixes a major long-standing perf-related NMI soft lockup bug I found when fuzzing.
Vince
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