On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:04:14PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:55:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > so kernel space still works like before, but userspace is locked up. > > > > > > > > Interesting. I suspect that if you reverted the rest of this merge > > > > window's RCU patches, you would get the same result. > > Something that occurred to me is that this might be something in the x86 merge > that's just changing timings enough to expose this problem. > At some point this evening, I'll try bisecting it if we don't get any closer.
OK. ;-) > > > [ 1953.672735] INFO: Stall ended before state dump start, gp_kthread > state: 0x2 > > > [ 2148.608132] INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: > > > [ 2148.609140] (detected by 0, t=104027 jiffies, g=47728, c=47727, q=0) > > > etc etc. > > > > Waiting uninterruptibly. Presumably blocked on mutex_lock(). But > > you have CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING(), so any deadlocks should have been > > reported. > > Lockdep had reported something a little earlier (timestamped at 1108.xxxxxx) > but that's a known false-positive in xfs. Yep, I would be very surprised if that was related to the grace-period hang. > > Given that you have CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y, could you please enable the > > following trace events and dump the trace before things hang? > > > > trace_event=rcu:rcu_grace_period,rcu:rcu_grace_period_init > > > > If it is not feasible to dump the trace before things hang, let me > > know, and I will work out some other diagnostic regime. > > I'll give that a shot when I get back in a few hours. Cool! Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/