linux-kernel - Re: (bisected) Lock up on sh73a0/kzm9g on cpuidle initialization

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Date:	Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:02:22 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
CC:	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: (bisected) Lock up on sh73a0/kzm9g on cpuidle initialization

On 11/06/2014 09:38 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> When CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y, the kernel locks up during cpuidle initialization
> on Renesas sh73a0/kzm9g-reference, which has a dual-core Cortex-A9.
>
> Last message is:
>
>      DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
>
> After this it's supposed to print:
>
>      cpuidle: using governor ladder
>      cpuidle: using governor menu
>
> I've bisected this to commit 442bf3aaf55a91ebfec71da46a4ee10a3c905bcc
> ("sched: Let the scheduler see CPU idle states").
>
> Reverting that commit, and commit 83a0a96a5f26d974580fd7251043ff70c8f1823d
> ("sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest"
> cpu") which
> depends on it, fixes the problem.
>
> I saw the discussion "lockdep splat in CPU hotplug", so I enabled lockdep
> debugging, but didn't see a lockdep splat.

Did you try the fix attached ?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/22/722

> I'm using CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y, as this is SMP without PREEMPT.
>
> Anyone with a clue?




>
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