Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:49:47 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>,
        Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>, dvteam@molgen.mpg.de,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:42:52AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 07:09:53PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Thing is, I'm slightly uncomfortable with de-coupling rcu-sched from
> > actual schedule() calls.
> 
> OK, what is the source of your discomfort?

Good question; after a little thought its not much different from other
cases. So let me ponder this a bit more..