Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?

[Dhaval Giani]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:26:42AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > > This one also fails to apply properly at the exact same place 
> > > > > > has Ingo's previously posted patch.  Would need to backport his 
> > > > > > one.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It depends on a completely reworked sysfs logic, I don't think it 
> > > > > makes any sense to backport that.
> > > > 
> > > > well, if it fixes a live bug in a still supported stable kernel 
> > > > release...
> > > > 
> > > > Vincent, could you try to just get rid of all actual uses of 
> > > > se->attr.owner, within fs/sysfs/*.c? Something like the patch below. 
> > > > (totally untested - might be fatally broken as well)
> > > 
> > > How can you think that this is not needed? You can not remove it with 
> > > sysfs you are patching. Hope this explains it: 
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ab66088c855eca68513bdd7442a426c4b374ced
> > 
> > yeah - as i said it might be fatally broken (in fact it is). Do we 
> > understand why Vincent got the crashes with vanilla 2.6.22.14 ?
> 
> No, and I can't seem to duplicate them here at all.
> 
> Does anyone have a test case for this that I can work on trying to
> duplicate?
> 

If you apply CFS without my fix, and try to constantly check cpu_shares
for a user who is logging and logging out, you should hit it. (That's
what I was doing).

-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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