linux-kernel - Re: WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1558 rcu_do_batch+0x386/0x3a0(), during CPU hotplug

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Message-ID: <1347625519.7172.31.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:25:19 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	jack@...e.cz,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"rusty@...tcorp.com.au" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1558 rcu_do_batch+0x386/0x3a0(),
 during CPU hotplug

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 17:48 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> #! /bin/bash

CPUPATH="/sys/devices/system/cpu"

> NUMBER_OF_CPUS=`ls -d /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]* | wc -l`

apply the above

> cd /sys/devices/system/cpu

skip this, so running the script doesn't change PWD

> while [ 1 ]

while :;

> do
>         for ((i=1; i < NUMBER_OF_CPUS; i++))
>         do
>                 sleep 1;

Also play with shorter sleeps like: sleep .1, I've found that higher
hotplug rate triggers some races faster.

>                 state=`cat cpu$i/online`
>                 if [ $state -eq 0 ]
>                 then
>                         echo 1 > cpu$i/online
>                 else
>                         echo 0 > cpu$i/online

	echo $((state^1)) > $CPUPATH/cpu$i/online

>                 fi
>         done
> done 


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