Re: RCU hang on cpu re-hotplug with 2.6.27rc8

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:56:46AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [fix up Thomas' address to not bounce]
> 
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:33:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The attached patch (similar to one in -tip, but set up for mainline and
> > tweaked to make stall-checking on by default) should get you a stack
> > trace of any CPUs holding up RCU grace periods for more than about
> > three seconds.
> > 
> > On the off-chance that this helps.
> 
> It actually does. The stall detector makes the online echo return
> after three seconds, although it's not 100% clear to me why.

Interesting.  This behavior would be consistent with the CPU entering
dyntick-idle mode without RCU's being aware of this.  Except that your
earlier .config file says "# CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set".  And that would
mean that the CPU really should be invoking RCU's state machine every
scheduling tick.

I confess confusion.

						Thanx, Paul

> here's the backtrace
> 
> RCU detected CPU 14 stall (t=4295149800/5928 jiffies)
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc9 #5
> 
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8025d188>] __rcu_pending+0x6e/0x1d9
>  [<ffffffff8025d329>] rcu_pending+0x36/0x6e
>  [<ffffffff8023b480>] update_process_times+0x37/0x5b
>  [<ffffffff8024be72>] tick_periodic+0x68/0x74
>  [<ffffffff8024be9f>] tick_handle_periodic+0x21/0x66
>  [<ffffffff8021bcd2>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0xa8
>  [<ffffffff8020bfe6>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x70
>  <EOI>  [<ffffffff803adb39>] ? acpi_safe_halt+0x2b/0x3e
>  [<ffffffff803adbfa>] ? acpi_idle_enter_c1+0xae/0x102
>  [<ffffffff804ffdd6>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x70/0xa2
>  [<ffffffff8020a097>] ? cpu_idle+0x7e/0x9c
>  [<ffffffff805bef4a>] ? start_secondary+0x157/0x15c
> 
> Timer issue?
> 
> 
> -Andi