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From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't send RESCHEDULE_VECTOR to offlined cpus
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:24:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080310125414.GE17646@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080310122418.GA12101@elte.hu>

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:24:18PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > x86: Don't send RESCHEDULE_VECTOR to offlined cpus.
> > From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
> > 
> > In the x86 native_smp_send_reschedule_function(), don't send the IPI 
> > if the cpu has gone offline already. Warn nevertheless!!
> 
> have you seen this happen?

Yup, this afternoon while running
cpu-hotplug stress tests (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/3/11)
in parallel with kern-bench, I got this on the serial console.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp_32.c:475 native_smp_send_reschedule+0x22/0x3f()
Modules linked in: dock
Pid: 4722, comm: kstopmachine Not tainted 2.6.25-rc3 #46
 [<c011f424>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x51
 [<c013ac74>] ? __lock_acquire+0xaae/0xaf6
 [<c011a446>] ? resched_cpu+0x2c/0x6f
 [<c0111691>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x22/0x3f
 [<c01186c7>] __resched_task+0x5f/0x63
 [<c011a479>] resched_cpu+0x5f/0x6f
 [<c011bb6d>] scheduler_tick+0x214/0x28f
 [<c012737b>] update_process_times+0x3d/0x49
 [<c013751d>] tick_sched_timer+0x6e/0xa6
 [<c01374af>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xa6
 [<c0131e8c>] __run_hrtimer+0x39/0x70
 [<c0132668>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xeb/0x154
 [<c01127bc>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x80
 [<c0143670>] ? stopmachine+0x0/0x98
 [<c0105553>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
 [<c0143670>] ? stopmachine+0x0/0x98
 [<c013007b>] ? sample_to_timespec+0x16/0x35
 [<c0143701>] ? stopmachine+0x91/0x98
 [<c01056eb>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
 =======================
---[ end trace 1016b68a0b60b50b ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------

> 
> 	Ingo

-- 
Thanks and Regards
gautham

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-10 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-10 12:14 [PATCH] x86: Don't send RESCHEDULE_VECTOR to offlined cpus Gautham R Shenoy
2008-03-10 12:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-10 12:54   ` Gautham R Shenoy [this message]
2008-03-10 15:32     ` Roel Kluin
2008-03-10 16:36     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-03-11  9:21       ` Ingo Molnar

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