[PATCH v5] um: Enable preemption in UML
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Sep 22 01:13:28 PDT 2023
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 09:01 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>
> My favorite test which I run on all changes is:
>
> find /usr -type f -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
>
> On Debian this forks /bin/cat for each file and does IO on it. That test passes here every time :(
Oh, apart from the splat, it all _works_ fine.
> However, I did not have debug turned on. So, I would not be surprised if something in the debug
OK.
> portion of the config makes the crashes more likely.
It's just a debug warning for me, no real crash.
> Otherwise, each fork is a forced tlb_flush_all, so it is a massive tlb exercise. Any bugs, locking, etc are likely to show up.
>
Yes, but when does the fork actually happen?
That part confuses me - the fork_handler() seems to be called at various
kind of random points in time after?
johannes
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