Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754530Ab3HESIV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:08:21 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com ([209.85.217.173]:46448 "EHLO mail-lb0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753427Ab3HESIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:08:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130805132948.GA14942@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:08:17 -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: 1114 Lines: 29 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > 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. Yeah, I just tested 5 times; with the patch all 5 times failed, without the patch all 5 times worked. -- 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/