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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu_prempt stalls / lockup
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:20:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140402162043.GA11090@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140401183245.GA12473@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:32:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:04:14PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:55:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

[ . . . ]

> >  > Waiting uninterruptibly.  Presumably blocked on mutex_lock().  But
> >  > you have CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING(), so any deadlocks should have been
> >  > reported.
> > 
> > Lockdep had reported something a little earlier (timestamped at 1108.xxxxxx)
> > but that's a known false-positive in xfs.
> 
> Yep, I would be very surprised if that was related to the grace-period hang.

Ah, but it could be suppressing later lockdep splats.  So if this can be
reproduced without xfs, we might get additional information from lockdep.

							Thanx, Paul


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31 23:02 rcu_prempt stalls / lockup Dave Jones
2014-03-31 23:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-03-31 23:35   ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01  0:48     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-01 15:08       ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01 15:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-01 17:22           ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01 17:55             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-01 18:04               ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01 18:32                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-01 22:16                   ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01 23:18                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-01 23:31                       ` Dave Jones
2014-04-01 23:57                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-02  0:07                           ` Dave Jones
2014-04-02 16:20                   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-04-02 16:23                     ` Dave Jones
2014-04-02 22:48                     ` Dave Jones
2014-04-03 20:01                       ` Dave Jones
2014-04-03 20:46                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-03 21:44                           ` Dave Jones
2014-04-03 22:37                             ` Dave Jones
2014-04-04 17:06                               ` Paul E. McKenney

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