Comment 10 for bug 1999731

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

I managed to corner the bug, the termination signal on timeout was killing the contention process with SIGKILL and this was killing the bogo-op increment mid increment causing the internal state to be inconsistent on the bogo-op counter. I've pushed a fix to the main repo:

commit efb0ad344e735986b29e0e1d68454edf9d793ee4 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Colin Ian King <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Feb 3 17:36:09 2023 +0000

    stress-lock{a|f|ofd}: terminate contention process with SIGALRM

This will be included in the next stress-ng release at the end of this month.