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Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:50:14 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>
Cc:	Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@...il.com>,
	Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 (
	possibly?caused by netem)

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:26:43PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Monday 06 July 2009 19:23:18 Joao Correia wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Since i already had the kernel compiled and ready to boot when i read
> > this, i gave it a go anyway :-).
> >
> > I can reproduce the freeze with those 4 patches applied, so i can
> > confirm that its, at least, related to, or exposed by, those patches.
> > There must be something else too, or its just too much fuzziness, but
> > the freeze takes a bit more time (approximately five minutes, give or
> > take) compared to the instant freeze before, but its there with the
> > patches, and without them, no freeze.
> >
> > I assume there isnt a "safe" way to get them out of current .31-rc's,
> > right?
> `echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration` should mitigate the problem.

I guess it should fix it entirely. Btw., here is a patch disabling the
timers' part, so to make it hrtimers only. Could you try?

Thanks,
Jarek P.
---

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 0b36b9e..011429c 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires,
 
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+#if 0
 	if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(cpu)) {
 		int preferred_cpu = get_nohz_load_balancer();
 
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