On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:52:11AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 11:02 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:32:51PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>On 11/29/2016 05:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:23:08PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>>>Hi Paul,
> >>>>
> >>>>most of my qemu tests for sparc32 targets started to fail in
> >>>>next-20161129.
> >>>>The problem is only seen in SMP builds; non-SMP builds are fine.
> >>>>Bisect points to commit 2d66cccd73436 ("mm: Prevent
> >>>>__alloc_pages_nodemask()
> >>>>RCU CPU stall warnings"); reverting that commit fixes the problem.
And I have dropped this patch. Michal Hocko showed me the error of
my ways with this patch.
Thanx, Paul
> >>>>Test scripts are available at:
> >>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/sparc
> >>>>Test results are at:
> >>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/sparc
> >>>>
> >>>>Bisect log is attached.
> >>>>
> >>>>Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down the
> >>>>problem.
> >>>
> >>>Apologies!!! Does the patch below help?
> >>>
> >>No, sorry, it doesn't make a difference.
> >
> >Interesting... Could you please send me the build failure messages?
> >
>
> There is no failure message; it just hangs until I abort the qemu session.
>
> http://kerneltests.org/builders/qemu-sparc-next/builds/532/steps/qemubuildcommand/logs/stdio
>
> Guenter
>
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> >>Guenter
> >>
> >>> Thanx, Paul
> >>>
> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>commit 97708e737e2a55fed4bdbc005bf05ea909df6b73
> >>>Author: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> >>>Date: Tue Nov 29 11:06:05 2016 -0800
> >>>
> >>> rcu: Allow boot-time use of cond_resched_rcu_qs()
> >>>
> >>> The cond_resched_rcu_qs() macro is used to force RCU quiescent states
> >>> into
> >>> long-running in-kernel loops. However, some of these loops can execute
> >>> during early boot when interrupts are disabled, and during which time
> >>> it is therefore illegal to enter the scheduler. This commit therefore
> >>> makes cond_resched_rcu_qs() be a no-op during early boot.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >>>index 525ca34603b7..b6944cc19a07 100644
> >>>--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >>>+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >>>@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ extern struct srcu_struct tasks_rcu_exit_srcu;
> >>> */
> >>>#define cond_resched_rcu_qs() \
> >>>do { \
> >>>- if (!cond_resched()) \
> >>>+ if (!is_idle_task(current) && !cond_resched()) \
> >>> rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch(current); \
> >>>} while (0)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/include/linux/rcutiny.h b/include/linux/rcutiny.h
> >>>index 7232d199a81c..20f5990deeee 100644
> >>>--- a/include/linux/rcutiny.h
> >>>+++ b/include/linux/rcutiny.h
> >>>@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ static inline void exit_rcu(void)
> >>>extern int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
> >>>void rcu_scheduler_starting(void);
> >>>#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
> >>>+#define rcu_scheduler_active false
> >>>static inline void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
> >>>{
> >>>}
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
