From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damien Wyart Subject: Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:11:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20090217061142.GA5316@localhost.localdomain> References: <20090216084223.GA2641@localhost.localdomain> <20090216095059.GL6182@elte.hu> <87hc2u61e9.fsf@free.fr> <20090216122632.GA3158@elte.hu> <87ljs6pmao.fsf@free.fr> <20090216132151.GA17996@elte.hu> <20090216160613.GA6785@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090216185616.GB6785@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090216200923.GA28938@elte.hu> <20090216223944.GF6785@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090216223944.GF6785-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List * Paul E. McKenney [2009-02-16 14:39]: > What is the easiest way for me to make it easy to trace the return path > from __rcu_pending()? Make each return path call an empty function > located off where the compiler cannot see it, I guess... Diagnostic > patch along these lines below. Frederic, Damien, could you please give > it a go? (And of course please let me know if something else is > needed.) As Frederic already sent a trace (made with another method), I'll consider for now mine would not be very useful at this stage, so I'm waiting for further instructions. If you need further testing for me, do not hesitate to ask... -- Damien