Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] sched: automated per tty task groups

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Oct 20 2010 - 10:42:13 EST


On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:55 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Comments, suggestions etc highly welcome.
>
> I've tested your patch and it runs smoothly on my machine.
> However I had several NULL pointer dereference BUGs that happened when I
> left X or rebooted my system. I think this is caused by your patch.
> There is nothing in the logs unfortunately, but I scribbled down the
> following by hand (not the whole trace, I'm too lazy):
>
> BUG: unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at 0..038
> IP: pick_next_task_fair 0xa7/0x1a0
> ...
> Call Trace: schedule
> ...

Hm. Not much I can do without the trace, but thanks for testing and
reporting anyway, guess I need to do some heavy stress testing. I'm
re-writing it as I write this anyway.

thanks,

-Mike

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