Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-24T13:40:06Z

Emil,

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Subject : dynticks makes ksoftirqd1 use unreasonable amount of cpu time
> > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100
> > Submitter : Emil Karlson <jkarlson@cc.hut.fi>
> > Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Status : problem is being debugged
>
> The problem is not reproducible on any of my machines.
>

I've uploaded a patch against 2.6.21-rc4 to

http://tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.21-rc4-trace/2.6.21-rc4-trace.patch.bz2

It contains all changes in Linus tree since -rc4 plus the two pending
fixes (http://tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.21-rc4-pending/) along with a
backport of the latency tracer from the realtime preemption patch.

Can you please apply the patch on top of -rc4 and build it with the
configuration, which exposes this strange behaviour. Please enable also
CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACE in the Kernel hacking menu.

When the problem is visible, then run trace-it
(http://tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.21-rc4-trace/trace-it.c) as root:

# trace-it >trace.txt

This captures roughly one second of kernel code pathes. Please stick
trace.txt into Bugzilla.

Thanks,

tglx