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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 9908859acaa9 cpuidle/menu: add per CPU PM QoS resume latency consideration
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:39:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170222143910.GV6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac73da0c-4a0d-c36b-9d5a-fe88de3a1acf@linaro.org>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:31:26PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/22/2017 09:19 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 14:12 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:56:37PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Do we really need a spinlock for that in the idle loop?
> >>
> >> Urgh, that's broken on RT, you cannot schedule the idle loop.
> > 
> > That's what made me notice the obnoxious little bugger.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Sorry for this bug. Guess the rt_spin_lock call some function in
> rtmutex.c:995. Could you like to show me how to reproduce this bug?

Its not hard; spinlock_t ends up being a mutex, and this is ran from the
idle thread. What thread do you think we ought to run when we block
idle?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-22 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-22 12:56 9908859acaa9 cpuidle/menu: add per CPU PM QoS resume latency consideration Mike Galbraith
2017-02-22 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-22 13:19   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-02-22 14:31     ` Alex Shi
2017-02-22 14:39       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-02-22 14:55         ` Alex Shi
2017-02-23 12:15           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-23 13:08             ` Mike Galbraith
2017-02-23 13:58               ` Alex Shi
2017-02-23 13:55             ` Alex Shi
2017-02-23 22:34               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-24  1:49                 ` Alex Shi
2017-02-24 12:25                   ` [PATCH] cpuidle: menu: Avoid taking spinlock for accessing QoS values Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-02-22 14:46       ` 9908859acaa9 cpuidle/menu: add per CPU PM QoS resume latency consideration Mike Galbraith
2017-02-22 14:53   ` Alex Shi
2017-02-22 15:03     ` Mike Galbraith
2017-02-22 15:36       ` Alex Shi
2017-02-22 15:46         ` Mike Galbraith

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