For the record, this hits the buildds and kills them occasionally, so we should definitely get this into both utopic and trusty.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1358569 Title: ppc64le oopses and userspace process hangs in System V semaphore code Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “linux” source package in Trusty: Confirmed Bug description: Canonical have been hitting issues with the System V semaphore code. Sometimes userspace processes would hang, sometimes an oops would pop. We have been able to reproduce this. Michael Ellerman has taken a close look and two fixes have just been merged in the 3.17 merge window: 51d7d5205d33 (powerpc: Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked()) 78e05b1421fa (powerpc: Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait()) Could these please be merged into the Utopic and (eventually) the Trusty kernel trees? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1358569/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp