From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420Ab2GTKmN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:42:13 -0400 Received: from e28smtp05.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.5]:50929 "EHLO e28smtp05.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724Ab2GTKmK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:42:10 -0400 Message-ID: <500935BC.4040405@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:11:00 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1550 __rcu_process_callbacks+0x46f/0x4b0() References: <5007F8FA.7000203@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120719171550.GL2507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20120719171550.GL2507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 12072010-8256-0000-0000-00000362CD3C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/19/2012 10:45 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:39:30PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> While running a CPU hotplug stress test on v3.5-rc7+ >> (mainline commit 8a7298b7805ab) I hit this warning. >> I haven't tried to debug this yet... >> >> Line number 1550 maps to: >> >> WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())); >> >> inside rcu_do_batch(). > > Hello, Srivatsa, > > I believe that you need commit a16b7a69 (Prevent __call_rcu() from > invoking RCU core on offline CPUs), which is currently in -tip, queued > for 3.6. Please see below for the patch. > > Does this help? Yes, that fixed it, thanks! :-) Sorry for the noise... Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs > > The __call_rcu() function will invoke the RCU core, for example, if > it detects that the current CPU has too many callbacks. However, this > can happen on an offline CPU that is on its way to the idle loop, in > which case it is an error to invoke the RCU core, and the excess callbacks > will be adopted in any case. This commit therefore adds checks to > __call_rcu() for running on an offline CPU, refraining from invoking > the RCU core in this case. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett > > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c > index a4a9c91..ceaa959 100644 > --- a/kernel/rcutree.c > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c > @@ -1904,11 +1904,11 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu), > * If called from an extended quiescent state, invoke the RCU > * core in order to force a re-evaluation of RCU's idleness. > */ > - if (rcu_is_cpu_idle()) > + if (rcu_is_cpu_idle() && cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) > invoke_rcu_core(); > > - /* If interrupts were disabled, don't dive into RCU core. */ > - if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) { > + /* If interrupts were disabled or CPU offline, don't invoke RCU core. */ > + if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags) || cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) { > local_irq_restore(flags); > return; > } >