linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1558 rcu_do_batch+0x386/0x3a0(), during CPU hotplug

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Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:32:13 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jack@...e.cz,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"rusty@...tcorp.com.au" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1558 rcu_do_batch+0x386/0x3a0(),
 during CPU hotplug

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:25:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 17:48 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > #! /bin/bash
> 
> CPUPATH="/sys/devices/system/cpu"
> 
> > NUMBER_OF_CPUS=`ls -d /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]* | wc -l`
> 
> apply the above
> 
> > cd /sys/devices/system/cpu
> 
> skip this, so running the script doesn't change PWD

Yes, that's good practice.

> > while [ 1 ]
> 
> while :;

I used to use 'true', but ':' looks cool!

> > do
> >         for ((i=1; i < NUMBER_OF_CPUS; i++))
> >         do
> >                 sleep 1;
> 
> Also play with shorter sleeps like: sleep .1, I've found that higher
> hotplug rate triggers some races faster.

OK.

> >                 state=`cat cpu$i/online`
> >                 if [ $state -eq 0 ]
> >                 then
> >                         echo 1 > cpu$i/online
> >                 else
> >                         echo 0 > cpu$i/online
> 
> 	echo $((state^1)) > $CPUPATH/cpu$i/online

Good!

Thanks,
Fengguang
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