On 10/6/2026 9:17 AM, Cunlong Li wrote:
>> It sounds like you do know that it is likely transient - but based on this
>> description and the below, it sounds like you have not yet found a use of
>> this patch.
>>
>>
> To be precise, we worry that some of the stalls were transient, so a
> panic reboot would affect the users. But we have no hard evidence
> either way: every incident ended in a forced reset, and the dmesg was
> lost. Going forward, we plan to enable the NMI and kdump to keep
> investigating the cause of the RCU stalls. We will also monitor dmesg
> to confirm whether transient RCU stalls actually occur.
Right, I just worry that if you're not seeing recoverable/transient stalls and
you start using this patch, then you might be causing side-effects that don't
really help your problem and might be masking the real issue. It would be good
to debug this further, and fix the right way IMO.
If you show that this patch indeed helps your problem, we can consider it for
7.5, but there's little bit of time. :-)
Thanks,
Joel Fernandes
