linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120921220302.GF2454@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --to=paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).