[dm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] multipathd: Remove a busy-waiting loop

Dragan Stancevic dragan.stancevic at canonical.com
Thu Aug 18 20:54:09 UTC 2016


Hi Bart-

it looks ok to me, these three patches combined with your previous patch
that is already in the repo...


Acked-by: dragan.stancevic at canonical.com

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com
> wrote:

> On 08/17/2016 12:36 PM, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
>
>> Acked-by: dragan.stancevic at canonical.com
>> <mailto:dragan.stancevic at canonical.com>
>>
>> I agree with your patch, I have been tracking an issue where multipathd
>> dumps core on the exit path just past the treads being canceled. Your
>> patch is very similar to mine (minus nuking the depth) that I was going
>> to send out to a user to test with. The checker thread accesses a valid
>> pointer with garbage values....
>>
>
> Hello Dragan,
>
> When I prepared my patch I overlooked that multipathd creates most threads
> as detached threads. So I started testing the three attached patches on my
> setup. It would be appreciated if you could have a look at these patches.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
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