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Message-ID: <20160129152735.GB407@worktop>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:27:35 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: timers: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:14:10PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And if I make the scheduling-clock interrupt send extra wakeups to the RCU
> grace-period kthread when needed, things work even with CPU hotplug going.
>
> The "when needed" means any time that the RCU grace-period kthread has
> been sleeping three times as long as the timeout interval. If the first
> wakeup does nothing, it does another wakeup once per second.
>
> So it looks like this change makes an existing problem much worse, as
> opposed to introducing a new problem.
I have a vague idea about a possible race window. Have you been
observing this on PPC or x86?
The reason I'm asking is that PPC (obviously) allows for more races :-)
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