linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] kernel freezes with latest tree

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Message-ID: <20120111142011.GA7991@somewhere.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:20:14 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel freezes with latest tree

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:44:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe a recent change in NMI handling, or perf events ?
> 
> Unlikely. And it shouldn't show up in the merge commit anyway, those
> things should be pretty independent.
> 
> > No idea why the bisection (I redid it carefully : same result) points to the above commit.
> 
> Ok, so the bisect is almost certainly correct. But just to be anal and
> really careful, can you independently check both parents of the merge,
> and then re-check the merge itself, and verify that the two parent
> commits never hang, and that the merged state hangs.
> 
> Just to take any bisection issues out of the picture, and just verify
> those three commits by hand.
> 
> But in the meantime, we should assume that it's the merge that is the problem.
> 
> I added Frederic to the cc, because he did the
> tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(), so maybe he can tell if there is
> something in that merge that looks suspicious (Frederic - see the
> history of the thread on lkml. I thought maybe it was the lack of
> irq-disable around set_cpu_sd_state_idle(), but Eric already tested
> that). And Suresh because he worked on the whole nohz/nr_busy_cpus.
> Maybe you guys see some obvious semantic clash..

As the thread evolved I guess we found the issue or at least we
got more clues.

But just in case, I double checked the merge but nothing looked
suspicious to me.

Thanks.

> 
> Anybody? Any ideas? Clearly there can be a merge problem that doesn't
> actually show as a real data conflict, just some semantic conflict,
> but I don't see what such issues would be brouht in by the scheduler
> merge anyway.
> 
>                        Linus
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