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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:18:54 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:10:04 -0700

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:08:37 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm...  What CPU family is this running on?  From the look of the
>> stack, it is sneaking out of idle into softirq without telling RCU.
>> This would cause RCU to complain bitterly about being invoked from
>> the idle loop -- and RCU ignores CPUs in the idle loop.
>> 
>> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> Sun4... Ping David.

So is there anything specific I need to do in the sparc64
idle loop?