* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The NOHZ patch contains a check for softirqs pending when a CPU goes
> idle. The BUG is unrelated to NOHZ, it just was made visible by the
> NOHZ patch. The BUG showed up mainly on P4 / hyperthreading enabled
> machines which lead the investigations into the wrong direction in the
> first place. The real cause is in cond_resched_softirq():
>
> cond_resched_softirq() is enabling softirqs without invoking the
> softirq daemon when softirqs are pending. This leads to the warning
> message in the NOHZ idle code:
good find!
> raw_local_irq_disable();
> - _local_bh_enable();
> + local_bh_enable();
> raw_local_irq_enable();
hm, i think this should be done without having irqs disabled?
Ingo
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