* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> seems to be a true SMP race: when i boot with 1 CPU it doesnt trigger,
> the same kernel image and 2 CPUs triggers it on CPU#1. (CPU#0 is the
> boot CPU) Note that the timing of the crash is not deterministic
> (sometimes i get it during net startup, sometimes during ACPI
> startup), but it always crashes within rcu_advance_callbacks().
>
> one difference between your tests and mine is that your kernel is
> doing _synchronize_kernel() from preempt-off sections (correct?),
> while my kernel with PREEMPT_RT does it on preemptable sections.
hm, another thing: i think call_rcu() needs to take the read-lock. Right
now it assumes that it has the data structure private, but that's only
statistically true on PREEMPT_RT: another CPU may have this CPU's RCU
control structure in use. So IRQs-off (or preempt-off) is not a
guarantee to have the data structure, the read lock has to be taken.
Ingo
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