Re: 3.10.5: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:45:50AM +0200, Jochen Striepe wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:27:51PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:58:36PM +0200, Jochen Striepe wrote:
> > > I just got this on 3.10.11 on the same machine. Could that be
> > > related?
> > 
> > Several people helped track down another source of spurious stall
> > warnings on large systems, please see below for the patch.
> [...]
> > This is quite rare, but apparently occurs deterministically
> > on systems with about 6TB of memory.
> 
> Hmm. My system is an ASUS Eee PC netbook with a total of 2G memory.
> The latest stall was just when booting, while /dev was to be filled
> by udev (and taking a really long time on that). So I think this
> patch should not help at my machine, right?
> 
> I tried to reproduce the stall, but without success. Is there anything
> that could help reproducing?

Their stall was due to old-style creation of sysfs entries for memory.
Yours might be having a similar issue with the creation of /dev entries,
so it would be worth trying it.

One thing to try would be to insert delays into the code involved in
creating the /dev entries.  These delays will need to be busy-waits
rather than sleeps.

							Thanx, Paul