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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RCU question
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:59:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B8E6F1.4070007@mvista.com> (raw)

I am working on VST code.  This code is called from the idle loop to check for 
future timers.  It then sets up a timer to interrupt in time to handle the 
nearest timer and turns off the time base interrupt source.  As part of 
qualifying the entry to this state I want to make sure there is no pending work 
so, from the idle task I have this:

	if (local_softirq_pending())
		do_softirq();

	BUG_ON(local_softirq_pending());

I did not really expect to find any pending softirqs, but, not only are there 
some, they don't go away and the system BUGs.  The offender is the RCU task. 
The question is: is this normal or is there something wrong?
-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/


             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 23:59 George Anzinger [this message]
2004-12-10  4:31 ` RCU question Dipankar Sarma
2004-12-10 19:42   ` George Anzinger
2004-12-10 20:40     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-12-10 20:45       ` Lee Revell
2004-12-10 21:02         ` George Anzinger
2004-12-10 22:58           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11  2:22             ` George Anzinger
2004-12-11  2:45               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11  3:29                 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-11 14:52                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11 16:32                     ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-11 16:52                       ` George Anzinger
2004-12-12  2:53                         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-12  8:59                           ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-12  9:37                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-12 10:22                               ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-12 12:15                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 21:40                                   ` Lee Revell
2004-12-14 22:23                                     ` [patch, 2.6.10-rc3] safe_hlt() & NMIs Ingo Molnar
2004-12-14 22:47                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-14 23:09                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15  8:52                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-15 15:44                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15 16:35                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16  0:37                                           ` Alan Cox
2004-12-16  1:58                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-16 14:51                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 15:08                                                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-16 15:11                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 15:42                                                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-16 15:54                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-16  2:10                                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-16 13:26                                               ` Alan Cox
2004-12-14 23:41                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 23:00                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15  5:04                                         ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-15  6:27                                       ` Avi Kivity
2004-12-15  8:51                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-12 16:51                                 ` RCU question George Anzinger
2004-12-12 22:40                                   ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-13  5:22                                     ` George Anzinger
2004-12-12 16:26                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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