linux-kernel - rcu_bh stalls on 3.2.28

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:02:57 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: rcu_bh stalls on 3.2.28

Just got one of these:

kernel: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 2 (t=0 jiffies)
kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.2.28+ #2
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810d1609>] __rcu_pending+0x159/0x400
kernel: [<ffffffff810d20bb>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x9b/0x120
kernel: [<ffffffff81089673>] update_process_times+0x43/0x80
kernel: [<ffffffff810a836f>] tick_sched_timer+0x5f/0xb0
kernel: [<ffffffff8109c097>] __run_hrtimer.isra.30+0x57/0x100
kernel: [<ffffffff8109c8f5>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe5/0x220
kernel: [<ffffffff8104ce14>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x64/0xa0
kernel: [<ffffffff8159b5cb>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x70
kernel: <EOI>  [<ffffffff81315645>] ? intel_idle+0xe5/0x140
kernel: [<ffffffff81315623>] ? intel_idle+0xc3/0x140
kernel: [<ffffffff814420ee>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x8e/0xf0
kernel: [<ffffffff81032425>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0x110
kernel: [<ffffffff8158a9ac>] start_secondary+0x1e5/0x1ec

There are previous reports of these weird rcu_bh stalls with t=0 in the 3.2
and 3.3 branches as well:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/18/34
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/28/175

another data point:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806610

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  Henrique Holschuh
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