On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:46:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Its a bandaid at best :/ The problem is (again) that we changes > > event->ctx without any kind of serialization. > > > > The issue came up before: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/5/397 > > > > and I've not been able to come up with anything much saner. > > A little something like the below is the best I could come up with; I > know Linus hated it, but I figure we ought to do something to stop > crashing.
I just wanted to report that I've tested both this patch and Jiri's original one and they both keep my easy-to-trigger-testcase from crashing my core2 machine (when applied against 3.18). This is great! I've been chasing this bug for months. Vince -- 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/
