> (I'm cc'ing Tom, Jens, and LKML.)
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:10 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> > I'm seeing a hard lock on my machine when I run kmemtraced with the
>> > following patch applied:
>> >
>> >
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=17ca1d55...
>> >
>> > I can enable/disable kmemtrace via the debugfs files fine and can also
>> > read the relay files with cat.
>> >
>> > Any idea where this is coming from?
>>
>> OK, it's the first splice() call in reader_thread() that causes the
>> hang. Hmm.
>
> To recap, with a CONFIG_KMEMTRACE enabled kernel from the
> "topic/kmemtrace" branch of:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git topic/kmemtrace
>
> running the "kmemtraced" program from
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/kmemtrace-user.git
>
> results to a hard lock on my machine. I am unable to find anything
> obviously wrong with it and as I can read/write the relay files just
> fine, I'm beginning to think it's problem in relayfs splice
> implementation.
>
> Tom, thoughts?
>
> Pekka
>
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