linux-kernel - Re: RCU idle CPU detection is broken in linux-next

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Message-ID: <505EA09B.6040105@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:39:39 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	fweisbec@...il.com
Subject: Re: RCU idle CPU detection is broken in linux-next

On 09/23/2012 02:21 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:27:35PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:50:29PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> On 09/22/2012 05:56 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>> And now the prime suspect is the new CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS=y.  Do these
>>>> warnings ever show up with CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS=n?
>>>
>>> It seems that disabling that does make the warnings go away.
>>>
>>> I'll keep the tests running in case it just reduces the chances or something
>>> like that.
>>
>> Thank you for testing this!
>>
>> And of course the reason that I didn't see these problems is that I
>> failed to update my tests to enable CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS.  :-/
> 
> Also the fact that I run 32-bit guests on x86.  Sigh!
> 
> I take it that you are running 64-bit guests?

Yes, that's correct.


Thanks,
Sasha

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