linux-kernel - Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle)

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601232144410.3230@east.gentwo.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:46:23 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable
 again and shut down on idle)

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> By switching cross-core, I'm referring to scheduling of communicating
> tasks.

??? Its cancelling a work request. That is a "communicating task"?

> Here's the sleeping lock for -rt:
>
> [    2.279582] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.5.0-rt3 #7
> [    2.280444] Hardware name: MEDION MS-7848/MS-7848, BIOS M7848W08.20C 09/23/2013
> [    2.281316]  ffff88040b00d640 ffff88040b01fe10 ffffffff812d20e2 0000000000000000
> [    2.282202]  ffff88040b01fe30 ffffffff81081095 ffff88041ec4cee0 ffff88041ec501e0
> [    2.283073]  ffff88040b01fe48 ffffffff815ff910 ffff88041ec4cee0 ffff88040b01fe88
> [    2.283941] Call Trace:
> [    2.284797]  [<ffffffff812d20e2>] dump_stack+0x49/0x67
> [    2.285658]  [<ffffffff81081095>] ___might_sleep+0xf5/0x180
> [    2.286521]  [<ffffffff815ff910>] rt_spin_lock+0x20/0x50
> [    2.287382]  [<ffffffff81075919>] try_to_grab_pending+0x69/0x240
> [    2.288239]  [<ffffffff81075b16>] cancel_delayed_work+0x26/0xe0

OMG cancelling a work request causes a sleeping lock to be taken?