On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:23:16AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 09:20 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > FYI, the bisect result is > > > > commit 554cecaf733623b327eef9652b65965eb1081b81 > > Author: Diwakar Tundlam <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed Mar 7 14:44:26 2012 -0800 > > > > sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer > > > > The 'next_balance' field of 'nohz' idle balancer must be initialized > > to jiffies. Since jiffies is initialized to negative 300 seconds the > > 'nohz' idle balancer does not run for the first 300s (5mins) after > > bootup. If no new processes are spawed or no idle cycles happen, the > > load on the cpus will remain unbalanced for that duration. > > > > Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > > Link: > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > > Oh fun.. does the below 'fix' it? > > The thing I'm thinking of a tick happening right after we set jiffies > but before the zalloc (specifically the memset(0)) is complete. Since > we've already registered the softirq we can end up in the load-balancer > and see a completely weird idle mask. > > Hmm?
The may be more causes, since I still get the warning: [ 9.816279] reboot: machine restart [ 9.835796] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 9.836558] WARNING: at /c/wfg/linux/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123 native_smp_send_reschedule+0x46/0x50() [ 9.839792] Pid: 18, comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc3-bisect-00005-gb374aa1-dirty #49 [ 9.839792] Call Trace: [ 9.839792] [<7902f42a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x5a/0x80 [ 9.839792] [<7901ee16>] ? native_smp_send_reschedule+0x46/0x50 [ 9.839792] [<7901ee16>] ? native_smp_send_reschedule+0x46/0x50 [ 9.839792] [<7902f4fd>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 [ 9.839792] [<7901ee16>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x46/0x50 [ 9.839792] [<7905fdad>] trigger_load_balance+0x1bd/0x250 [ 9.839792] [<79056d14>] scheduler_tick+0xd4/0x100 [ 9.839792] [<7903bde5>] update_process_times+0x55/0x70 [ 9.839792] [<79071187>] tick_sched_timer+0x57/0xb0 [ 9.839792] [<793accee>] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x4e/0x90 [ 9.839792] [<7904e0b7>] __run_hrtimer.isra.29+0x57/0x100 [ 9.839792] [<79071130>] ? tick_nohz_handler+0xe0/0xe0 [ 9.839792] [<7904ed45>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe5/0x280 [ 9.839792] [<7905a5a7>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc7/0x150 [ 9.839792] [<7901f9a4>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x54/0x90 [ 9.839792] [<79882631>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x40 [ 9.839792] [<7905007b>] ? call_srcu+0x2b/0x70 [ 9.839792] [<793a00e0>] ? __bitmap_intersects+0x10/0x80 [ 9.839792] [<7988194f>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x1f/0x40 [ 9.839792] [<7905307f>] finish_task_switch+0x7f/0xd0 [ 9.839792] [<79053038>] ? finish_task_switch+0x38/0xd0 [ 9.839792] [<7988044a>] __schedule+0x38a/0x770 [ 9.839792] [<79045529>] ? worker_thread+0x1a9/0x380 [ 9.839792] [<793accee>] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x4e/0x90 [ 9.839792] [<7988084e>] schedule+0x1e/0x50 [ 9.839792] [<7904552e>] worker_thread+0x1ae/0x380 [ 9.839792] [<79056ed9>] ? complete+0x49/0x60 [ 9.839792] [<79045380>] ? manage_workers.isra.23+0x250/0x250 [ 9.839792] [<79049ff8>] kthread+0x78/0x80 [ 9.839792] [<79880000>] ? __up.isra.0+0xd/0x2d [ 9.839792] [<79049f80>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x70/0x70 [ 9.839792] [<798830c6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
