Hi Paul
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Strangely enough, I believe that I have inadvertently fixed this in
> my -rcu tree:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/next
>
> Nevertheless, if you get a chance to try it, I would be interested to
> hear if my guess is correct.
Yes, good news: the stall warnings go away with that branch.
> The trick is that a kthread drives the grace period in -rcu, regardless
> of whether or not there are callbacks.
This is "rcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread" ?
Added some debugging into rcu_gp_kthread() after that commit and can
confirm that the quiescent-state forcing loop does start a few times when
there are zero callbacks pending (modulo any races in my measurement
code).
> However, the backport would not be something that -stable would be happy
> with, so I will be putting together a fix for mainline. This thing
> has been in the kernel since about 2004, not sure why you didn't hit
> it earlier.
One other data point in that regard - noticed the warnings don't appear
when the board is booted with:
commit 4fa3b6cb1bc8c14b81b4c8ffdfd3f2500a7e9367
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mcken...@linaro.org>
Date: Tue Jun 5 15:53:53 2012 -0700
rcu: Fix qlen_lazy breakage
...
- Paul
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