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Message-ID: <20110720145939.GB2352@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:59:39 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	RKK <kulkarni.ravi4@...il.com>
Cc:	kernelmail.jms@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Fw: RCU boot debug patch

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:57:38AM +0530, RKK wrote:
> Hi paul,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hello, Julie and Ravi,
> >
> > Although we arrived at a patch that worked for both of you, we never did
> > identify exactly which RCU callback (or other issue) that was causing
> > the problem.  It would be good to do this in case there is some other
> > problem lurking that might bite us in the future.  Mingming has therefore
> > put together the following diagnostic patch which should identify the
> > callbacks, please see below.
> >
> > So could you please run this and let us know what you find?  There should
> > at least be a message for artificial_callback().
> >
> 
>  Do i need to  apply this patch on today's Linus master or on -rc7 ?

Please do not use -rc7, as that would reproduce your hang.  Linus master
tree would be best, but -rc7 with the fix applied would work fine as well.

							Thanx, Paul
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