On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Jan Stancek wrote:

> stack_grow_into_huge allocates large chunks
> on memory and do_child() will eventually fail with SIGSEGV.
> 
> If system is set up to dump core, it can take significant
> time until this action is completed. For example if ABRT
> runs on such system, kernel is blocked on pipe_write for
> couple of minutes:
>   # time ./obj64/stack_grow_into_huge
>   Starting testcase "./obj64/stack_grow_into_huge", pid 24257
>   PASS
> 
>   real    29m12.060s
>   user    0m0.013s
>   sys     4m41.744s
> 
> Sep  7 06:56:54 ibm-p720-01-lp3 abrt[24259]: Saved core dump of pid
> 24258 (/root/libhugetlbfs/tests/obj64/stack_grow_into_huge) to
> /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2012-09-07-06:27:42-24258 (1098439983104 bytes)
> 
> With patch:
>   Starting testcase "./obj64/stack_grow_into_huge", pid 24384
>   PASS
> 
>   real    0m0.206s
>   user    0m0.013s
>   sys     0m0.193s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.
Eric

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