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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@novell.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu: endless stalls
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:54:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611165413.GC2521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339424543.7350.101.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:22:23PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 06:39 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: 
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:06:16PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > I received a report of a 48 core UV box hitting a gripe, taking longer
> > > than timeout to emit same, so box griped endlessly, forcing reboot.
> > 
> > So it took minutes to print an RCU CPU stall warning?  On only 48 CPUs?
> > 
> > If so, yow!!!
> 
> The report was a tad fuzzy on details, but serial console can take a
> while at low baud rate, and the box was apparently perma-stalled.

Which clearly demands the question "why not increase the serial-console
baud rate"...  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> > My guess is that rcu_cpu_stall_suppress must be manipulated atomically
> > for this to work reliably, for example, using xchg().
> 
> Ah, thanks.
> 
> -Mike
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-11 10:06 rcu: endless stalls Mike Galbraith
2012-06-11 13:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-11 14:22   ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-11 16:54     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-06-11 17:20     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-11 18:01       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-11 18:10         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-13  3:35           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-13  4:31             ` Hugh Dickins
2012-06-13  5:56               ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-13  7:12                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-14  7:45                   ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-14 16:47                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-14 21:34                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-06-15  7:49                       ` Mike Galbraith

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