linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.19-rc5

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:49:40 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ilya Dryomov <ilya.dryomov@...tank.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.19-rc5

On Thursday, January 29, 2015 05:12:11 PM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 05:54:00 PM Peter Hurley wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, but the debug check is triggering worse behavior, requiring
> >> bisecting back to the debug commit.
> >
> > Yes, it is.
> >
> > So I'm wondering is anyone is working on fixing this in any way?
> >
> > It kind of sucks when this is happening on an otherwise perfectly usable
> > old(ish) machine ...
> 
> The WARN() was already changed to a WARN_ONCE().
> 
> So that debug check doesn't cause problems any more. If somebody is
> bisecting something else, and the WARN() is a problem for those
> intermediate kernels, then just disabling CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
> should get you past that point.
> 
> IOW, this really shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> Does the pccard thing still not work?

Interestingly enough, if the kernel is built with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
unset, the problem with 99+% CPU load from pccardd goes away, so thanks for
the hint.

Rafael

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