Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:25:46 -0800 | Subject | Re: bio linked list corruption. |
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: > > So your kernel has been smp-alternatived. That 3e comes from > alternatives_smp_unlock. If you're running on SMP with UP > alternatives, things will break.
I'm assuming he's just running in a VM with a single CPU.
The problem that I pointed out with assuming wake_up_all() actually removes all wait queue entries does not depend on SMP. The race is much more fundamental and long-lived.
Linus
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