From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755701Ab3FGBe4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:34:56 -0400 Received: from smtpbg64.qq.com ([103.7.28.238]:49985 "HELO smtpbg64.qq.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754574Ab3FGBez (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:34:55 -0400 X-QQ-mid: bizesmtp3t1370568891t073t317 X-QQ-SSF: 01200000000000F0FLF2000A0000000 Message-ID: <51B138AA.4070707@kylinos.com.cn> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:34:34 +0800 From: "weiqi@kylinos.com.cn" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+m5aWH?= , torvalds , linux-kernel Subject: Re: race condition in schedule_on_each_cpu() References: <20130606212303.GH5045@htj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130606212303.GH5045@htj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org it's preemption mode related , on the 3.0.30-rt50, only config kernel with highest preemption level (Fully Preemptible Kernel (RT)) in cpu preemption model will cause problem and even i use the "Preemptible Kernel" or "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)" the problem would not happen.. > I looked through the logs but the only worker depletion related patches which pop up are around CPU hotplugs, so I don't think they apply here. If the problem is relatively easy to reproduce && you can't move onto a newer kernel, I'm afraid bisection probably is the best option. Thanks!