linux-kernel - Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17

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Message-ID: <20160327210733.GC4287@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:07:33 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	"Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Ross Green <rgkernel@...il.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	pranith kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:53:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:40:18AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Oh, and the patch I am running with is below.  I am running x86, and so
> > some other architectures would of course need the corresponding patch
> > on that architecture.
> 
> > -#define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG	21	/* idle is polling for TIF_NEED_RESCHED */
> 
> Also note that ARM (v7) which Ross is running doesn't have this to begin
> with.

He might well be seeing some other bug, then.  Reinette might be instead
seeing time-synchronization issues, perhaps that is also Ross's problem.

Or maybe there is more than one bug.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul