Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:53:36 +0000
From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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        ALKML <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage on 4.4-rc2 ARM platform
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On 24/11/15 08:52, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:27:50PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > I'm hitting these splats while running simple hotplug tests on an ARM
> > TC2 platform. The following seems to cure it, but I don't think it never
> > made it to mainline:
> > 
> >  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/12/892 
> > 
> > Any reason why?
> 
> If I remember correctly, it could result in failures on some ARM
> processors.  The problem was that this patch assumes that the CPU
> caches remain active throughout, when in fact they can be disabled at an
> inconvenient time.  As I understand it, this can result in other updates
> to that cache line being lost when the CPU is powered off.
> 
> RMK would know more.
> 

Paul, Russell,

thanks for confirming that this is a know problem; I just wanted to be
sure I'm not seeing something new. I guess I'll keep using this fix on
my box while I wait for a proper one.

Best,

- Juri
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