Hi all,
we actually also ran into this bug on a dual xeon (2GHz
Prestonia) with Hyperthreading enabled. Without Hyperthreading, it was hard to
reproduce the problem. The following script (requires bash >= 2.0.5) provokes
the problem in a very short time. With the patch from Intel, the problem is
gone (patched into 2.4.18), no side effects discovered so far.
Thanks to Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> for pointing out the patch to us.
Cheers,
Roland
Here is the script:
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#!/bin/sh
# Small script to provoke a SIGSEV on SMP machines with kernel problem
# requires bash > 2.0.5. The script fails e.g. on dual xeon systems without
# Intel patch (Message title: Illegal instruction failures fixes for 2.4.18 in # kernel mailing list, 22.5.2002).
# Script simply executes a couple of mktemp loops in the background, and tries
# to read the generated file back.
#
# Author: Roland Fehrenbacher, rf@q-leap.com
base_out=/tmp/test-sigsev
maxprocs=5
myname=`basename $0`
pids=""
files=""
trap 'killall $myname; rm -f $files ${base_out}??????;' 0 1 2 3 15
for (( num=1; num <= $maxprocs; num++ )); do
while true; do
file=`mktemp ${base_out}XXXXXX` || { echo mktemp failed; break; }
cat $file || { echo open $file failed; break; }
rm -f $file
done > ${base_out}-${num}.out 2>&1 &
pids="$pids $!"
files="$files ${base_out}-${num}.out"
done
printf "PIDS running = $pids\n--\n"
printf "No further output should appear if no bug is present. Run script for\n"
printf "a couple of hours to be sure everything is ok. Ctrl-C to stop.\n--\n"
i=1
while true; do
echo $i: ok >> ${base_out}-${num}.out
for pid in $pids; do
ps -p $pid > /dev/null 2>&1 || \
{ echo "count = $i: Pid $pid died" >> ${base_out}-${num}.out; \
pids=`echo $pids | sed -e s/$pid//g`; }
done
sleep 10
((i++))
done &
files="$files ${base_out}-${num}.out"
sleep 1
tail -f $files | grep "count ="
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