On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 06:55:57AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 02:17:46AM -0700, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Commit-ID: 1959a60182f48879635812a03a99c02231ea8677 > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1959a60182f48879635812a03a99c02231ea8677 > > Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> > > AuthorDate: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:45:45 -0700 > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > > CommitDate: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:18:53 +0200 > > > > x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it > > > > Specifically, pin the stack in save_stack_trace_tsk() and > > show_trace_log_lvl(). > > > > This will prevent a crash if the target task dies before or while > > dumping its stack once we start freeing task stacks early. > > This causes a hang: The problem is that show_stack_log_lvl() can be called with a NULL task_struct pointer to indicate 'current'. No idea why that convention exists -- IMO we should just require the caller to pass 'current' directly. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html