linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:57:21 -0700
From:	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>
To:	"paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	"Rowand, Frank" <Frank_Rowand@...yusa.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11

On 08/26/11 16:55, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
>> On 08/13/11 03:53, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>
>>> Whee, I can skip release announcements too!
>>>
>>> So no the subject ain't no mistake its not, 3.0.1-rt11 is there for the
>>> grabs.
>>>
>>> Changes include (including the missing -rt10):
>>>
>>>   - hrtimer fix that should make RT_GROUP work again
>>>   - RCU fixes that should make the RCU stalls go away
>>>   - fixes SMP=n builds after breaking them in -rt9
>>
>> I have a consistent (every boot) hang on boot.  With a few
>> hacks to get console output, I get the
>>
>>   rcu_preempt_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks
>>
>> messages in the attached console log.

< snip >

> 
> Hmmm...  The last few that I have seen that looked like this were
> due to my messing up rcutorture so that the RCU-boost testing kthreads
> ran CPU-bound at real-time priority.
> 
> Is it possible that something similar is happening on your system?
> 
>                                                         Thanx, Paul

I don't think so.  That would require CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, correct?
And that is not set:

< way big snip >

>> # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
>> CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60
>> CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y

I'm finally getting back to this today, so I'm starting to learn about
the RCU stall detector, so maybe I can make some more sense of this.

-Frank

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