Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754334Ab1DNWoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:44:20 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:39280 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754277Ab1DNWoQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:44:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:44:11 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for April 14 (Call-traces: RCU/ACPI/WQ related?) Message-ID: <20110414224411.GF2141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3534 Lines: 110 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:19:34AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sedat Dilek > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Sedat Dilek > > wrote: > >> [ Adding CC to RCU maintainer (Hi Paul :-)) ] > >> > >> Helping me for now with (see also Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt): > >> > >> # cat /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_suppress > >> 0 > >> > >> # echo "1" > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_suppress > >> > >> # cat /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_suppress > >> 1 > >> > >> - Sedat - > >> > > > > That workaround helped till a system-freeze when generating a tarball > > from my current kernel-tree. > > I switched back to my yesterday's linux-next kernel. > > > > - Sedat - > > > > I isolated the culprit so far: > > commit 900507fc62d5ba0164c07878dbc36ac97866a858 > "rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread" > > With this revert my system does not show the symptoms I have reported. Hmmm... I never was able to reproduce this, but did find a workload that slowed up the grace periods. I fixed that (which turned out to be a wakeup problem), but my hopes that it would also fix your problem were clearly unfounded. I have once again stopped exporting this commit to -next. Thanx, Paul > - Sedat - > > >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Sedat Dilek > >> wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> Changes since 20110413: > >>>> > >>>> Dropped tree: xen > >>>> > >>>> The gfs2 tree lost its conflict. > >>>> > >>>> The net tree lost its build failure. > >>>> > >>>> The wireless tree lost all but one conflict. > >>>> > >>>> The trivial tree lost its conflict. > >>>> > >>>> The tip tree gained a conflict against Linus' tree. > >>>> > >>>> The usb tree gained a conflict against the s5p tree. > >>>> > >>>> The staging tree lost its conflicts. > >>>> > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Just a quick hello and an attached dmesg. > >>> Yesterday's linux-next (next-20110413) with same kernel-config was OK. > >>> > >>> ( Also, I have seen a section-mismatch in x86 (IIRC mm) missing > >>> __init... but that's another story. ) > >>> > >>> - Sedat - > >>> > >>> P.S.: diff between today's and yesterday's kernel-config > >>> > >>> $ diff -uprN /boot/config-2.6.39-rc3-next20110413.2-686-small > >>> /boot/config-2.6.39-rc3-next20110414.2-686-small > >>> --- /boot/config-2.6.39-rc3-next20110413.2-686-small ? ?2011-04-13 > >>> 12:32:09.000000000 +0200 > >>> +++ /boot/config-2.6.39-rc3-next20110414.2-686-small ? ?2011-04-14 > >>> 10:23:25.000000000 +0200 > >>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > >>> ?# > >>> ?# Automatically generated make config: don't edit > >>> ?# Linux/x86 2.6.39-rc3 Kernel Configuration > >>> -# Wed Apr 13 11:55:54 2011 > >>> +# Thu Apr 14 09:43:03 2011 > >>> ?# > >>> ?# CONFIG_64BIT is not set > >>> ?CONFIG_X86_32=y > >>> @@ -2602,6 +2602,7 @@ CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m > >>> ?# > >>> ?# Enable Host or Gadget support to see Inventra options > >>> ?# > >>> +# CONFIG_USB_RENESAS_USBHS is not set > >>> > >>> ?# > >>> ?# USB Device Class drivers > >>> > >> > > -- 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/