From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Daniel Bilik <daniel.bilik@neosystem.cz>
Subject: Re: Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:10:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A1817C.10300@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160121095234.GN10810@quack.suse.cz>
On 01/21/2016 04:52 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 20-01-16 13:39:01, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:19:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> a friend of mine started seeing crashes with 3.18.25 kernel - once
>>> appropriate load is put on the machine it crashes within minutes. He
>>> tracked down that reverting commit 874bbfe600a6 (this is the commit ID from
>>> Linus' tree, in stable tree the commit ID is 1e7af294dd03) "workqueue: make
>>> sure delayed work run in local cpu" makes the kernel stable again. I'm
>>> attaching screenshot of the crash - sadly the initial part is missing but
>>> it seems that we crashed when processing timers on otherwise idle CPU. This
>>> is a production machine so experimentation is not easy but if we really
>>> need more information it may be possible to reproduce the issue again and
>>> gather it.
>>>
>>> Anyone has idea what is going on? I was looking into the code for a while
>>> but so far I have no good explanation. It would be good to understand the
>>> cause instead of just blindly reverting the commit from stable tree...
>>
>> Tejun fixed a bug in timer: 22b886dd10180939. is it included in 3.18.25?
>
> That doesn't seem to be included in 3.18-stable although it was CCed to stable.
> Sasha?
Looks like it requires more than trivial backport (I think). Tejun?
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-22 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 21:19 Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25 Jan Kara
2016-01-20 21:39 ` Shaohua Li
2016-01-21 9:52 ` Jan Kara
2016-01-21 13:29 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-22 1:10 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2016-01-22 16:09 ` Tejun Heo
2016-01-23 2:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-23 16:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-26 9:34 ` Jan Kara
2016-01-26 9:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-26 11:14 ` Petr Mladek
2016-01-26 13:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 9:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-03 10:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 12:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 16:24 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 16:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 16:59 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-04 6:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 7:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 17:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 17:06 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 17:13 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 17:15 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-04 2:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 16:49 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-05 20:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 20:54 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-05 20:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 21:06 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-06 13:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-02-07 5:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-07 5:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 15:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-09 16:50 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 17:54 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 18:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 18:27 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-09 17:51 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-04 10:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-04 10:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-04 11:07 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-04 11:20 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-04 16:39 ` Daniel Bilik
2016-02-05 2:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 8:11 ` Daniel Bilik
2016-02-05 8:33 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 18:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 19:01 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 19:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 19:15 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-05 5:44 ` Mike Galbraith
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