* Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Hello, Ingo, > > > > The changes in this series include: > > > > 1. Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/7/650. > > > > 2. Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/7/678. > > > > 3. Maintainership changes. These were posted to LKML at > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/7/713, with a couple of > > additional at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/3/812 and > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/2/585. > > > > 4. Torture-test updates. These were posted to LKML at > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/7/816. > > > > 5. Callback-offloading changes. These were posted to LKML at > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/7/1007. > > > > All of these have been exposed to -next testing. JFYI, the attached x86 (rand!-) config crashes on early bootup: [ 0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2 [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1439 warn_pre_alternatives+0x1e/0x20() [ 0.000000] You're using static_cpu_has before alternatives have run! [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc5+ #236363 [ 0.000000] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/A8N-E, BIOS ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 08/22/2005 [ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 ffffffff82787c60 ffffffff81ff4ec0 ffffffff82787ca8 [ 0.000000] ffffffff82787c98 ffffffff810651ac ffffffff81011531 ffffffff82787e48 [ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff827cf880 ffffffff82787cf8 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66 [ 0.000000] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0x93 [ 0.000000] [] ? warn_pre_alternatives+0x1e/0x20 [ 0.000000] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x4e [ 0.000000] [] ? irq_return+0x7/0x7 [ 0.000000] [] warn_pre_alternatives+0x1e/0x20 [ 0.000000] [] __do_page_fault+0xc3/0x43f [ 0.000000] [] ? print_context_stack+0x6a/0xb6 [ 0.000000] [] ? dump_trace+0x27d/0x294 [ 0.000000] [] ? number.isra.1+0x127/0x22c [ 0.000000] [] ? print_time.part.5+0x58/0x5c [ 0.000000] [] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11/0xb9 [ 0.000000] [] do_page_fault+0x1e/0x54 [ 0.000000] [] ? irq_return+0x7/0x7 [ 0.000000] [] page_fault+0x22/0x30 [ 0.000000] [] ? __bitmap_or+0x15/0x28 [ 0.000000] [] rcu_init_one+0x4c0/0x55d [ 0.000000] [] rcu_init+0x270/0x2da [ 0.000000] [] start_kernel+0x24f/0x4d2 [ 0.000000] [] ? set_init_arg+0x53/0x53 [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf1/0xf4 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4650963e41188009 ]--- [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 0.000000] IP: [] __bitmap_or+0x15/0x28 [ 0.000000] PGD 0 [ 0.000000] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.16.0-rc5+ #236363 [ 0.000000] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/A8N-E, BIOS ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 08/22/2005 [ 0.000000] task: ffffffff827a3480 ti: ffffffff82784000 task.ti: ffffffff82784000 [ 0.000000] RIP: 0010:[] [] __bitmap_or+0x15/0x28 [ 0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff82787ef8 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 0.000000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: 0000000000000001 [ 0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880000019800 RDI: ffff880000019800 [ 0.000000] RBP: ffffffff82787ef8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff827cf880 [ 0.000000] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffffffff827cf880 R15: 00000000001cd000 [ 0.000000] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003f800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000279e000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 0.000000] Stack: [ 0.000000] ffffffff82787f50 ffffffff82c876f0 ffffffff83b7e7a0 0000000000000001 [ 0.000000] 0000000000000082 0000000200000000 00000000ffffffff ffffffff82d37920 [ 0.000000] ffff88003ffbba40 ffffffff82d3e890 0000000000000000 ffffffff82787f80 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [] rcu_init_one+0x4c0/0x55d [ 0.000000] [] rcu_init+0x270/0x2da [ 0.000000] [] start_kernel+0x24f/0x4d2 [ 0.000000] [] ? set_init_arg+0x53/0x53 [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf1/0xf4 [ 0.000000] Code: 4c 89 04 c7 4d 09 c1 48 ff c0 eb e8 31 c0 4d 85 c9 0f 95 c0 5d c3 55 48 63 c9 31 c0 48 83 c1 3f 48 89 e5 48 c1 e9 06 39 c1 7e 11 <4c> 8b 04 c2 4c 0b 04 c6 4c 89 04 c7 48 ff c0 eb eb 5d c3 55 48 [ 0.000000] RIP [] __bitmap_or+0x15/0x28 [ 0.000000] RSP [ 0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4650963e4118800a ]--- [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! [ 0.000000] Rebooting in 1 seconds..Press any key to enter the menu Excluding the new RCU bits from tip:master makes it boot. Any idea what's wrong? Thanks, Ingo