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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: "Ross Green" <rgkernel@gmail.com>,
	"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Lai Jiangshan" <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Darren Hart" <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"pranith kumar" <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:33:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160219173343.GB3522@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAqxLXrGB8yiP469yGBHTBbX3+4p-qC0QNPoqq+q_ju0Nq+vQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:13:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ross Green <rgkernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well a bonus extra!
> > Kept everything running and there was another stall.
> > So i have included the demsg output for perusal.
> >
> > Just to clear things up there is no hotplug involved in this system.
> > It is a standard Pandaboard ES Ti4460 two processor system.
> > I use this for testing as a generic armv7 processor, plus can keep it
> > just running along for testing for a long time. the system has a total
> > of 23-25 process running on average. Mainly standard daemons. There is
> > certainly no heavy processing going on. I run a series of benchmarks
> > that are cpu intensive for the first 20 miinutes after boot and then
> > just leave it idle away. checking every so often to see how it has
> > gone.
> > As mentioned I have observed these stalls going back to 3.17 kernel.
> > It will often take up to a week to record such a stall. I will
> > typically test every new release kernel, so the -rc? series will get
> > around a weeks testing.
> 
> Sorry. Kind of hopping in a bit late here. Is this always happening
> with just the pandaboard? Or are you seeing this on different
> machines?
> 
> Have you tried enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING just in case
> something is going awry there?

Excellent point -- timekeeping issues have caused this sort of issue
in the past.

Ross, on your next test, could you please enable CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
as John suggests?

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-19 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-09 10:11 rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Ross Green
2016-02-17  5:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-17 19:28   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-17 19:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-17 20:28       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-17 23:19         ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-18 11:51           ` Ross Green
2016-02-18 23:14             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-19  3:56               ` Ross Green
2016-02-19  4:13                 ` John Stultz
2016-02-19 17:33                   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2016-02-20  4:34                     ` Ross Green
2016-02-20  6:32                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-21  5:04                         ` Ross Green
2016-02-21 18:15                           ` Ross Green
2016-02-23 20:34                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 20:55                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-23 21:28                                 ` Ross Green
2016-02-25  5:13                                   ` Ross Green
2016-02-26  0:56                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-26  1:35                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-04  5:30                                         ` Ross Green
2016-03-04 15:18                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-18 21:00                                       ` Josh Triplett
2016-03-18 23:56                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-21 16:22                                           ` Jacob Pan
2016-03-21 17:26                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-22 16:35                                               ` Chatre, Reinette
2016-03-22 17:40                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-22 21:04                                                   ` Chatre, Reinette
2016-03-22 21:19                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-23 17:15                                                       ` Chatre, Reinette
2016-03-23 18:20                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-23 18:25                                                           ` Chatre, Reinette
2016-03-23 19:50                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-25 21:24                                                           ` Chatre, Reinette
2016-03-25 21:46                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-26 12:29                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-26 15:28                                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-26 18:49                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-26 22:22                                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-27  1:34                                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-27 13:48                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-27 15:40                                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-27 20:00                                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-27 20:45                                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-27 21:06                                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28  6:25                                                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-28 13:08                                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-29  0:25                                                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-29  0:28                                                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-29 13:49                                                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-30 14:55                                                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-31 15:42                                                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-04-03  8:18                                                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-06  6:25                                                                                                 ` Ross Green
2016-05-07 15:25                                                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-10  2:36                                                                                                     ` Ross Green
2016-06-30 17:52                                                                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28  1:44                                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-28  2:23                                                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-28  6:13                                                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-28 13:50                                                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28 14:15                                                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-27 20:53                                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-27 21:07                                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-27 20:54                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-27 21:09                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28  6:28                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-28 13:29                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28 15:07                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-28 15:56                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-28 16:12                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-28 16:29                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-30 12:58                                                     ` Boqun Feng
2016-03-30 13:30                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-30 14:15                                                         ` Boqun Feng
2016-02-19  4:22               ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-19  5:59                 ` Ross Green

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