Re: [PATCH] lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 11:30:06 EST


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:10:48AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >From 4d82a1debbffec129cc387aafa8f40b7bbab3297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:06:19 -0700
>
> Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's
> process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing
> on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[].

can you elaborate what 'memory load' means here ?
I'm curious if I can add something to my fuzzing tool to shake out bugs like this.

Dave

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