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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

  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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