3.8.13.14-rt28-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tiejun Chen Any callers to the function rcu_preempt_qs() must disable irqs in order to protect the assignment to ->rcu_read_unlock_special. In RT case, rcu_bh_qs() as the wrapper of rcu_preempt_qs() is called in some scenarios where irq is enabled, like this path, do_single_softirq() | + local_irq_enable(); + handle_softirq() | | | + rcu_bh_qs() | | | + rcu_preempt_qs() | + local_irq_disable() So here we'd better disable irq directly inside of rcu_bh_qs() to fix this, otherwise the kernel may be freezable sometimes as observed. And especially this way is also kind and safe for the potential rcu_bh_qs() usage elsewhere in the future. Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen Signed-off-by: Bin Jiang Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/rcutree.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 7ec834d..6f6d133 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -186,7 +186,12 @@ static void rcu_preempt_qs(int cpu); void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu) { + unsigned long flags; + + /* Callers to this function, rcu_preempt_qs(), must disable irqs. */ + local_irq_save(flags); rcu_preempt_qs(cpu); + local_irq_restore(flags); } #else void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu) -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/