On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > Create a 350 processes reading /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/spinlocks/histo_blocked > file simultaneously in while loop for more than 3 hours on my box.
You need to open the file a single time, and then after that sinelg open (either threaded or with fork()) do multiple concurrent copies something like for (;;) { char buf[1024]; lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); } or similar. But it's important that they all share the same struct file. It's also likely to make it easier to trigger the race if you have a kernel with preemption enabled. And you need to have SLAB debugging enabled to actually *see* the messages. Otherwise you'll have just (possibly silent) corruption or a memory leak. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/