linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40

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Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 14:33:31 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] rcu commits for 2.6.40

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:30:05PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > I'll try it in any case.
> > 
> > oh, this was a new iteration, mea culpa!
> > 
> > And yes, it solves all problems for me as well. Mind pushing it as a fix? :-)
> 
> FYI, i am also getting the warning below with a defconfig.

Yep, this is me whining that rcu_enter_nohz() was called before the
irq nesting count (->dynticks_nesting) had dropped to zero.  In other
words, either I am mis-counting interrupts or we entered some irq
handler and then somehow never left it, but still managed to get
to process-level execution.  Most likely that I am miscounting
somehow.

I suppose that I could remove the WARN_ON_ONCE() and pretend that all
was well, but...  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> 	Ingo
> 
> initcall init_per_zone_wmark_min+0x0/0x5b returned 0 after 41 usecs
> calling  kswapd_init+0x0/0x1d @ 1
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:364 rcu_enter_nohz+0x4f/0x60()
> Hardware name: System Product Name
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-rc7-tip-03260-gb177656-dirty #126707
> Call Trace:
>  [<c13974b6>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
>  [<c1038f0d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0
>  [<c1089bdf>] ? rcu_enter_nohz+0x4f/0x60
>  [<c1089bdf>] ? rcu_enter_nohz+0x4f/0x60
>  [<c1038f5d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
>  [<c1089bdf>] rcu_enter_nohz+0x4f/0x60
>  [<c10639ca>] tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x22a/0x470
>  [<c1001685>] cpu_idle+0x65/0xe0
>  [<c137d789>] rest_init+0xa1/0xa8
>  [<c137d6e8>] ? reciprocal_value+0x48/0x48
>  [<c156a6ef>] start_kernel+0x303/0x30b
>  [<c156a1fd>] ? obsolete_checksetup+0x95/0x95
>  [<c156a067>] i386_start_kernel+0x67/0x6d
> ---[ end trace fe4ebffb2b8ff187 ]---
> initcall kswapd_init+0x0/0x1d returned 0 after 70614 usecs
> calling  extfrag_debug_init+0x0/0x78 @ 1
> initcall extfrag_debug_init+0x0/0x78 returned 0 after 79 usecs
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