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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com, viresh.kumar@linaro.org,
	mtosatti@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sasha.levin@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Possible issue with commit 4961b6e11825?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 20:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151207190120.GB20032@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204232022.GA15891@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:20:22PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Are there any known issues with commit 4961b6e11825 (sched: core: Use
> hrtimer_start[_expires]())?
> 
> The reason that I ask is that I am about 90% sure that an rcutorture
> failure bisects to that commit.  I will be running more tests on
> 3497d206c4d9 (perf: core: Use hrtimer_start()), which is the predecessor
> of 4961b6e11825, and which, unlike 4961b6e11825, passes a 12-hour
> rcutorture test with scenario TREE03.  In contrast, 4961b6e11825 gets
> 131 RCU CPU stall warnings, 132 reports of one of RCU's grace-period
> kthreads being starved, and 525 reports of one of rcutorture's kthreads
> being starved.  Most of the test runs hang on shutdown, which is no
> surprise if an RCU CPU stall is happening at about that time.

I have no idea what the issue is but maybe you have the RCU stall backtrace
somewhere?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 23:20 Possible issue with commit 4961b6e11825? Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05 19:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-06  2:36   ` Viresh Kumar
2015-12-06  5:18     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-06 20:56   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-07 19:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2015-12-07 20:00   ` Paul E. McKenney

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