Re: [perf] more perf_fuzzer memory corruption

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 17 2014 - 10:54:58 EST


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:42:47AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:48:15AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > Is there some place where I can pick up the latestest of your fuzzer?
> > > >
> > > > PeterZ has trouble reproducing the corruption locally - I'd like to
> > > > run it too, maybe I have hardware that triggers it more readily.
> > >
> > > From a few emails up:
> > >
> > > "If you want to try running the fuzzer on your machine too just do:
> > > git clone https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests.git
> > > cd fuzzer
> > > make
> > > and then try running the "./fast_repro98.sh" script, as that's the forking
> > > workload I've been using when tracking this issue."
>
> I have to admit the slab corruption message is a new development with
> 3.15-rc1.

Meh.. my machine keeps locking up with 15-rc1 and your fuzzer. It looks
to get stuck a finish_task_switch() from a preemption while waiting for
a perf IPI.

Which is complete crack because we have preemption disabled over
issueing and waiting for the IPI :/

I tried reverting some of the IPI related patches, but no joy so far,
I'm about to go try a git-bisect on this.
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