Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 08:25:01AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 04:25:16PM +1000, Ross Green wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> > <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > Thought i would update a few runs with the linux-4.6-rc kernels.
> > 
> > I have attached log outputs through dmesg showing rcu_preempt stall warnings.
> > 
> > 
> > Thought it might be interesting for someone else to look at.
> > 
> > Currently running linux-4.6-rc6 in testing.
> 
> Thank you for sending these, I will look them over!
> 
> Still working to reproduce this quickly enough to do real debug...  :-/

And Peter Zijlstra's patch looks to have hugely reduced the rate of
occurrence of this bug in my testing:

lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523091907.GD15728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Almost all of the issues I am seeing now are transient, do not trigger
RCU CPU stall warnings, and would not have been visible to me before
I upgraded my testing scripts and in-kernel code.  In all the tests I
have run with Peter's fix, I have seen only one run with RCU CPU stall
warnings, and all the stalls in that run were transient, unlike those
that I was seeing before his fix.

I will of course be tracking this stuff down, but the low reproduction
rates will make it slow going.

I am guessing that you no longer see this issue?

							Thanx, Paul