linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 40/40] rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state

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Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:08:56 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "jiangshanlai@...il.com" <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        "dipankar@...ibm.com" <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "dhowells@...hat.com" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "bobby.prani@...il.com" <bobby.prani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 40/40] rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule
 be Tasks RCU quiescent state

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:38:16PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 05:30:55AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> >Hmmm...  kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:329 thinks that someone slept (as opposed
> >to was preempted) in an RCU read-side critical section.

Sasha, was this on one of those kernels that did a printk() from
scheduler context?