linux-kernel - Re: rcu,sched: spinlock recursion on 3.5-rc2

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1206121716370.3086@ionos>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:20:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: rcu,sched: spinlock recursion on 3.5-rc2

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 17:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Hmm, not sure. The deadlock was not triggered in switch_to. It was
> > just at the beginning of __schedule()
> > 
> > 
> How can you tell? switch_to() is a macro not a function, it won't ever
> show up on a stack-trace.. but I think you meant context_switch() but
> that typically gets inlined, similar problem.

Bah, I misread the trace and the rcu code. :(

So, yes the revert should solve the problem. Looks like I need more
coffee, not Paul :)

Thanks,

	tglx
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