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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, mroos@linux.ee,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:03:19 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411.210319.370705937753558953.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120412004507.GF2473@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:45:07 -0700

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:18:54PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Hmmm...  I must confess that I don't immediately see how control
> is passing from cpu_idle() in arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c to
> __handle_softirq().
> 
> But it looks like a simple function call in the call trace:

It's coming from the trap return code path at the end of hardware
interrupt processing, on the IRQ stack.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-28  8:45 suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0 Meelis Roos
2012-03-28 21:45 ` David Miller
2012-04-11 15:08   ` Meelis Roos
2012-04-11 23:08     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-12  0:10       ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-12  0:18         ` David Miller
2012-04-12  0:45           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-12  1:03             ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-12  1:53               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-12  1:08             ` David Miller
2012-04-12  4:54               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-13 11:55                 ` mroos
2012-04-13 13:35                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-13 14:55                     ` David Miller
2012-04-13 16:30                       ` Paul E. McKenney

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