public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] timer: fix deadlock on cpu hotplug
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:19:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285373987.2275.1048.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923133103.GA3832@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 15:31 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:29:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 11:22 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > > The idea was to move it to a class of its own above SCHED_FIFO.
> > > 
> > > I'll try and get something done, but I'm heading out to LinuxCon.JP
> > > soon.
> > 
> > Something like the below, it seems to boot, build a kernel and hotplug.
> 
> Thanks for the fast patch. Yes, it works. Sort of:
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------

<SPLAT>

> 
> ..and crashes afterwards ;)

Yeah, I can imagine,. weird though, kthread_create() should leave the
new thread in uninterruptible context. The above warning implies this is
not so.. 

> Btw. I also tried to boot 2.6.35.5 with your patch and it hangs just at
> the beginning. I also had to apply 5e3d20a68f63fc5a310687d81956c3b96e488b84
> "init: Remove the BKL from startup code" to make the machine boot again,
> which was a bit surprising.

Most curious and unexpected,.. I'll try and have a look, but it might
have to wait until after LinuxCon.JP..



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-25  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 14:20 [PATCH/RFC] timer: fix deadlock on cpu hotplug Heiko Carstens
2010-09-21 15:36 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-21 15:40   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-22  8:37     ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-22  9:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-22 14:29         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-23 13:31           ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-25  0:19             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-10-11 12:31             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-11 13:51               ` Heiko Carstens
2010-10-18 19:16           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 15:39 ` [PATCH/RFC] timer: fix deadlock on cpu hotplug Thomas Gleixner

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=1285373987.2275.1048.camel@laptop \
    --to=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=arnd@arndb.de \
    --cc=heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=tj@kernel.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