linux-kernel - Re: linux-next RCU complaint during boot

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Message-ID: <20110902163706.GA2319@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:37:07 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next RCU complaint during boot

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 12:06:43PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:53:32 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker said:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:44:24PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > > This is a bug where someone uses RCU at a time when RCU has been told
> > > that the CPU is in dyntick-idle mode.  Frederic Weisbecker has some
> > > patches that should address this.
> > 
> > Yep, see there: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/20/81
> 
> Hmm.. .would test, but didn't apply cleanly to -next from Wednesday.  Of course,
> I was trying to do it before corn flakes, so I probably got the patches out of order.
> WIll re-try this evening if I get a chance.

I need to queue those patches anyway.  With luck they will hit -rcu by
the end of the weekend.

							Thanx, Paul
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