From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3xb8hr0BM4zDqY3 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:14:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098399.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id v7KLDq5b073227 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:14:33 -0400 Received: from e18.ny.us.ibm.com (e18.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.208]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2cehgawm63-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:14:33 -0400 Received: from localhost by e18.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:14:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:14:29 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Michael Ellerman , Jonathan Cameron , dzickus@redhat.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linuxarm@huawei.com, abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, john.stultz@linaro.org Subject: Re: RCU lockup issues when CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=n - any one else seeing this? Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20170731162757.000058ba@huawei.com> <20170801184646.GE3730@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170802172555.0000468a@huawei.com> <20170815154743.GK7017@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <87wp63smwn.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> <20170816125617.GY7017@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170816162731.GA22978@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170820144553.2ab2727b@ppc64le> <20170820230040.706b62ac@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20170820183514.GM11320@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20170820183514.GM11320@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20170820211429.GA27111@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:35:14AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:00:40PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:45:53 +1000 > > Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:27:31 -0700 > > > "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 05:56:17AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > > Thomas, John, am I misinterpreting the timer trace event messages? > > > > > > So I did some digging, and what you find is that rcu_sched seems to do a > > > simple scheudle_timeout(1) and just goes out to lunch for many seconds. > > > The process_timeout timer never fires (when it finally does wake after > > > one of these events, it usually removes the timer with del_timer_sync). > > > > > > So this patch seems to fix it. Testing, comments welcome. > > > > Okay this had a problem of trying to forward the timer from a timer > > callback function. > > > > This was my other approach which also fixes the RCU warnings, but it's > > a little more complex. I reworked it a bit so the mod_timer fast path > > hopefully doesn't have much more overhead (actually by reading jiffies > > only when needed, it probably saves a load). > > Giving this one a whirl! No joy here, but then again there are other reasons to believe that I am seeing a different bug than Dave and Jonathan are. OK, not -entirely- without joy -- 10 of 14 runs were error-free, which is a good improvement over 0 of 84 for your earlier patch. ;-) But not statistically different from what I see without either patch. But no statistical difference compared to without patch, and I still see the "rcu_sched kthread starved" messages. For whatever it is worth, by the way, I also see this: "hrtimer: interrupt took 5712368 ns". Hmmm... I am also seeing that without any of your patches. Might be hypervisor preemption, I guess. Thanx, Paul PS. I will be off the grid for the next day or so. Eclipse day here...