Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757650Ab3FFDqr (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:46:47 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:60706 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756409Ab3FFDqq (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:46:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1370490403.24311.322.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Subject: Re: stop_machine lockup issue in 3.9.y. From: Eric Dumazet To: Ben Greear Cc: Tejun Heo , Rusty Russell , Joe Lawrence , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jouni Malinen , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Senthil Balasubramanian , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:46:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <51B004CD.6080007@candelatech.com> References: <51AE27D5.7050202@candelatech.com> <87sj0xry1k.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130605071539.GA3429@mtj.dyndns.org> <51AF6E54.3050108@candelatech.com> <20130605184807.GD10693@mtj.dyndns.org> <51AF8D4B.4090407@candelatech.com> <51AF91F5.6090801@candelatech.com> <51AFA677.9010605@candelatech.com> <20130605211157.GK10693@mtj.dyndns.org> <1370482492.24311.308.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20130606031444.GA12335@mtj.dyndns.org> <1370489181.24311.318.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <51B004CD.6080007@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1290 Lines: 33 On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 20:41 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 06/05/2013 08:26 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 20:14 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > >> > >> Ah, so, that's why it's showing up now. We probably have had the same > >> issue all along but it used to be masked by the softirq limiting. Do > >> you care to revive the 10 iterations limit so that it's limited by > >> both the count and timing? We do wanna find out why softirq is > >> spinning indefinitely tho. > > > > Yes, no problem, I can do that. > > Limiting it to 5000 fixes my problem, so if you wanted it larger than 10, that would > be fine by me. > > I can send a version of my patch easily enough if we can agree on the max number of > loops (and if indeed my version of the patch is acceptable). Well, 10 was the prior limit and seems really fine. The non update on jiffies seems quite exceptional condition (I hope...) We use in Google a patch triggering warning is a thread holds the cpu without taking care to need_resched() for more than xx ms -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/