From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" The trace_event benchmark thread runs in kernel space in an infinite loop while also calling cond_resched() in case anything else wants to schedule in. Unfortunately, on a PREEMPT kernel, that makes it a nop, in which case, this will never voluntarily schedule. That will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to forever block on this thread, while it is running. This is exactly what cond_resched_rcu_qs() is for. Use that instead. Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c index e49fbe901cfc..16a8cf02eee9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c @@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ static int benchmark_event_kthread(void *arg) trace_do_benchmark(); /* - * We don't go to sleep, but let others - * run as well. + * We don't go to sleep, but let others run as well. + * This is bascially a "yield()" to let any task that + * wants to run, schedule in, but if the CPU is idle, + * we'll keep burning cycles. + * + * Note the _rcu_qs() version of cond_resched() will + * notify synchronize_rcu_tasks() that this thread has + * passed a quiescent state for rcu_tasks. Otherwise + * this thread will never voluntarily schedule which would + * block synchronize_rcu_tasks() indefinitely. */ - cond_resched(); + cond_resched_rcu_qs(); } return 0; -- 2.10.2