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From: lizefan@huawei.com (Li Zefan)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: backport patches to 2.6.34 to remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:16:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51079383.60406@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51077966.1060703@huawei.com>

On 2013/1/29 15:25, Li Zefan wrote:
> Hi Catalin,
> 
> We got system crashes, and then we managed to trigger the bug within minutes,
> and we found this in upstream, which also backported to 2.6.34 stable:
> 
> commit cb297a3e433dbdcf7ad81e0564e7b804c941ff0d
> Author: Chanho Min <chanho0207@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Jan 5 20:00:19 2012 +0900
> 
>     sched/rt: Fix task stack corruption under __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
> 
> The bug described in this commit resembles to ours. Unfortunately After applying
> the fix, we still get crash in hours. We tried to bind each real-time task to a
> single cpu to make sure no cpu migration will happen, and it ran without any
> problem for ~20 hours.
> 
> We're still investigating this issue. One thing I'm doing is backporting patches
> that removes __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW. With those patches, I can boot
> the kernel, but it hung up when the system automatically start nfs and later
> soft-lockup was reported. Things are fine if I disable nfs startup and start it
> manually.
> 

I've confirmed it's the 1st patch that causes this lockup.

> So did I miss something when backporting, or is it infeasible to backport them
> to 2.6.34? We're using ARMv7. I've attached the patches I backported.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29  7:25 backport patches to 2.6.34 to remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW? Li Zefan
2013-01-29  9:16 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2013-02-02  9:19 ` Li Zefan

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