Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754198Ab3HERnc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:43:32 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f48.google.com ([209.85.215.48]:65129 "EHLO mail-la0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753452Ab3HERnb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:43:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130805132948.GA14942@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:43:29 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc4 From: Felipe Contreras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 24 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, Felipe, can you double-check that it's not timing-related > in some subtle way, and test multiple times with just that commit > reverted (and not reverted) to make sure that it's 100% that one > single line by that particular commit? Because it does seem very > benign.. I tested perhaps dozens of times with the patch, and every one of them failed. I tested at least 6 times with the patch reverted, every one of them worked. I'm fairly certain that it's 100% reproducible, so it doesn't seem to be a race. But I'll double-check. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/