Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Prevent panic

2018-04-17 Thread Gregory Rose
On 4/16/2018 11:32 PM, Pravin Shelar wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Greg Rose wrote: On RHEL 7.x kernels we observe a panic induced by a paging error when the timer kicks off a job that subsequently accesses memory that belonged to the openvswitch kernel module

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Prevent panic

2018-04-17 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Greg Rose wrote: > On RHEL 7.x kernels we observe a panic induced by a paging error > when the timer kicks off a job that subsequently accesses memory > that belonged to the openvswitch kernel module but was since > unloaded - thus the

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Prevent panic

2018-04-16 Thread Greg Rose
On RHEL 7.x kernels we observe a panic induced by a paging error when the timer kicks off a job that subsequently accesses memory that belonged to the openvswitch kernel module but was since unloaded - thus the paging error. The panic can be induced on any RHEL 7.x kernel with the following test: