Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754943Ab3IJIAP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:00:15 -0400 Received: from oker.escape.de ([194.120.234.254]:48378 "EHLO oker.escape.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752868Ab3IJIAN (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:00:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:45:50 +0200 From: Jochen Striepe To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3.10.5: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks Message-ID: <20130910074550.GE17483@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> References: <20130813103202.GB2338@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> <20130818180232.GL29406@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130818184848.GA2398@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> <20130909215836.GD17483@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> <20130909222751.GL3966@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130909222751.GL3966@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 28 Hello, On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:27:51PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:58:36PM +0200, Jochen Striepe wrote: > > I just got this on 3.10.11 on the same machine. Could that be > > related? > > Several people helped track down another source of spurious stall > warnings on large systems, please see below for the patch. [...] > This is quite rare, but apparently occurs deterministically > on systems with about 6TB of memory. Hmm. My system is an ASUS Eee PC netbook with a total of 2G memory. The latest stall was just when booting, while /dev was to be filled by udev (and taking a really long time on that). So I think this patch should not help at my machine, right? I tried to reproduce the stall, but without success. Is there anything that could help reproducing? Best greetings, Jochen. -- 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/