From: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Paul E. McKenney)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: rcu self-detected stall messages on OMAP3, 4 boards
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:03:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921220302.GF2454@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120921203149.GI28835@atomide.com>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:31:49PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [120921 12:58]:
> >
> > Just to make sure I understand the combinations:
> >
> > o All stalls have happened when running a minimal userspace.
> > o CONFIG_NO_HZ=n suppresses the stalls.
> > o CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ (which depends on CONFIG_NO_HZ=y) has
> > no observable effect on the stalls.
>
> The reason why you may need minimal userspace is to cut down
> the number of timers waking up the system with NO_HZ.
> Booting with init=/bin/sh might also do the trick for that.
Good point! This does make for a very quiet system, but does not
reproduce the problem under kvm, even after waiting for four minutes.
I will leave it for more time, but it looks like I really might need to
ask Linaro for remote access to a Panda.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 22:51 rcu self-detected stall messages on OMAP3, 4 boards Paul Walmsley
2012-09-13 1:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-13 18:52 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-20 0:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-20 7:56 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-20 15:03 ` Bruce, Becky
2012-09-20 21:49 ` Bruce, Becky
2012-09-20 22:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-20 22:47 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-20 23:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 18:08 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-21 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 19:11 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-21 19:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 20:31 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-09-21 22:03 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-09-22 15:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-09-22 16:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 22:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-22 18:42 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-22 20:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-22 21:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-22 22:25 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-22 23:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-23 7:55 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-23 12:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-23 1:42 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-23 1:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-23 2:01 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-24 9:41 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-09-24 13:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-01 8:55 ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-01 13:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 18:59 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-21 17:47 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-21 17:51 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-21 21:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-21 22:41 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-22 0:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-22 18:16 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-22 19:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-22 22:20 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-22 23:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-24 21:54 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-09-24 22:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
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