On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:40 Petr Tesarik wrote: | On Friday 27 of August 2010 16:31:35 Hedi Berriche wrote: | | > That said, I'm letting my already over 36 hours run carry on chewing CPU | > time, and see if it will eventually trip the same problem seen with 4-byte | > ticket locks. | | Hm, this doesn't sound like a viable approach. Since the siglock gets | initialized to 0 when a new process is started, it may never actually wrap | around. | | I would rather attach a SystemTap probe somewhere during process fork and add | a bias to the siglock. That should work fine. Let me knock up the SystemTap | script... That would be nice. Ta! Cheers, Hedi. -- Hedi Berriche Global Product Support http://www.sgi.com/support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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