linux-kernel - Re: Suspend resume problem (WAS Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.8.10-rt6)

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Date:	Fri, 03 May 2013 11:59:32 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspend resume problem (WAS Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.8.10-rt6)

On 04/30/2013 08:08 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> This NMI releated deadlock is a problem which should also trigger
>> mainline, right?
> 
> Well, yeah, as sending out a NMI stack dump is sorta the last resort,
> and is dangerous to do printks from NMI context.

So we did bad and we upgrade to bad and dangerous.

>>
>> Now, the time jump on the other hand is the real issue here and is
>> RT-only. It looks like we get a big number of timer updates via
>> tick_do_update_jiffies64() because according to ktime_get() that much
>> time really passed by.
> 
> As the NMI dump only happens because of the time jump, which as you
> said, is -rt only, I wouldn't say that the NMI deadlock is a mainline
> bug.

The reason for the NMI was a bug in the -RT tree but if something else
triggers that NMI we have a good chance to deadlock.

What about a try_lock() and leave after 50 usecs of trying and not
getting it in the in_nmi() case?

> -- Steve

Sebastian
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