I too have traced a similar RCU stall all the way back to 3.17. Seems to affect RCU preempt code as well.
I had not been able to find a sure fail way to trigger this and it could take several days running before problem arises. Ross -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/