Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:31:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc3 deadlocks on semaphore operations
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Hello Christoph,
>
> On 06/18/2010 04:56 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > One important fact that I forgot to mention: This is on a dual quad core
> > dell box (8 hardware threads) with CONCURRENCY_LEVEL set to 9.
> >
>
> - Which version of make do you use? That would be one suspect that might use
> semop().

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

> - If I run make -j5 bzImage, then no semaphore arrays are used.
> Could you try to figure out which executable is doing the 'semop()' call?

Looks like this was ld

> Or: what's the output of ps xawwwww_

Need to do another run with a broken kernel for this.
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