Re: [REGRESSION] um: rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 0

[richard -rw- weinberger]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  On 10/14/2010 11:27 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>>
>> Hi Arjan!
>>
>> This commit causes some problems on UML.
>>
> that is extremely weird.
>>
>> The kernel freezes after a few seconds until it gets some input.
>> e.g: When I run top it stops refreshing the process list until i press a
>> button.
>
> a slab timer change (to not be as critical) causing global timer issues....
> that's very obviously not a problem with this patch.
> has this been seem anywhere except UML ?
>

So far I've seen this problem only on UML.
Chris saw it too:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128622041625323&w=2

Maybe your patch triggers a general timer problem within UML?

>> Messages like this appear:
>> INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 0 (t=7348 jiffies)
>>
>> After reverting UML works fine again.
>>
>> commit 78b435368fcd615e695a06012cd963a556284e00
>> Author: Arjan van de Ven<arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Mon Jul 19 10:59:42 2010 -0700
>>
>>     slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
>>
>>     slab has a "once every 2 second" timer for its housekeeping.
>>     As the number of logical processors is growing, its more and more
>>     common that this 2 second timer becomes the primary wakeup source.
>>
>>     This patch turns this housekeeping timer into a deferable timer,
>>     which means that the timer does not interrupt idle, but just runs
>>     at the next event that wakes the cpu up.
>>
>>     The impact is that the timer likely runs a bit later, but during the
>>     delay no code is running so there's not all that much reason for
>>     a difference in housekeeping to occur because of this delay.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven<arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>     Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
>> index e49f8f4..29aad44 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.c
>> +++ b/mm/slab.c
>> @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ static void __cpuinit start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
>>          */
>>         if (keventd_up()&&  reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
>>                 init_reap_node(cpu);
>> -               INIT_DELAYED_WORK(reap_work, cache_reap);
>> +               INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(reap_work, cache_reap);
>>                 schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, reap_work,
>>                                         __round_jiffies_relative(HZ,
>> cpu));
>>         }
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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