Re: [android-kernel] rcu_barrier stall

2012-02-03 Thread mike digioia
Maybe RCU_BARRIER is waiting for all RCU callback to complete but one or more don't exists, since the module was unloaded. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Robert Beckett wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone reading this list know much about the rcu subsystem? > > I have been debugging a problem with

[android-kernel] rcu_barrier stall

2012-02-03 Thread Robert Beckett
Hello, Does anyone reading this list know much about the rcu subsystem? I have been debugging a problem with unmounting disks. Occasionally when unmounting an ext4 filesystem, the whole system would freeze. I traced this to it waiting for completion on an rcu_barrier. After lots of debugging,