linux-kernel - Re: "rcu: React to callback overload by aggressively seeking quiescent states" hangs on boot

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Date:   Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:29:36 -0800
From:   Dexuan-Linux Cui <dexuan.linux@...il.com>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lili Deng <Lili.Deng@...rosoft.com>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Baihua Lu <Baihua.Lu@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: "rcu: React to callback overload by aggressively seeking
 quiescent states" hangs on boot

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 11:18 AM Dexuan-Linux Cui
<dexuan.linux@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We're seeing the same hang issue with a recent Linux next-20191213
> kernel.  If we revert the same commit 82150cb53dcb ("rcu: React to
> callback overload by aggressively seeking quiescent states”), the
> issue will go away.
>
> Note: we're running the x86-64 Linux VM Hyper-V, and the the torture
> test is not used:
Sorry for missing a "on" after the word "VM" (and typing 1 more "the") .