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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: ego@in.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG-REPORT] hrtick_start_fair and CPU-Hotplug
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:59:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209452359.13978.26.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429065211.GB7859@in.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:22 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> While running the usual CPU-Hotplug stress tests on linux-2.6.25,
> I noticed the following in the console logs.
> 
> This is a wee bit difficult to reproduce. In the past 10 runs I hit this
> only once.
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:962 hrtick+0x2e/0x65()

> I am not well versed with this part of the code, so just wondering if we
> are doing a good job at handling the cancellation of any per-cpu
> scheduler timers during CPU-Hotplug.

This looks like its not cancelled at all and migrates the it to another
cpu. I'll see what I can come up with.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29  6:52 [BUG-REPORT] hrtick_start_fair and CPU-Hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29  6:59 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-04-29  8:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29  9:46     ` Ingo Molnar

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