This is a fix for a boot stall that can be reproduced with "rcupdate.rcu_self_test=1" and CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y.
It should be easy to trigger if you set CONFIG_MAXSMP=y and you don't actually have thousands of CPUs. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git rcu/dev HEAD: 6390b2aa1295f79150fac8f5ff60177eea5d8f8b Thanks, Frederic --- Frederic Weisbecker (3): srcu: Remove superfluous ssp initialization on deferred work queue srcu: Remove superfluous sdp->srcu_lock_count zero filling srcu: Fix broken node geometry after early ssp init include/linux/srcutree.h | 1 + kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)