Re: Alleged fix for writer stall on -rcu branch dev

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Mon Apr 15 2019 - 06:40:51 EST


On 2019-04-13 07:21:53 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> And after ramping up the stress in rcutorture a bit, I am able to
> reproduce this CPU stall involving offlining on my systems. My plan is
> my usual one: Keep increasing rcutorture stress to get it to reproduce
> in reasonable time, add diagnostics as appropriate, and continue making
> forward-progress improvements in RCU itself.

I *think* this one is also new:

|Assertion failure in /home/bigeasy/linux-rt/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2019.04.14-14:28:40/TREE03.37/console.log TREE03
|Summary: Warnings: 6 Call Traces: 6
https://breakpoint.cc/console-03.37.log

|Assertion failure in /home/bigeasy/linux-rt/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2019.04.14-14:28:40/TREE03.39/console.log TREE03
|Summary: Warnings: 4 Call Traces: 4
https://breakpoint.cc/console-03.39.log

This is still commit 33e04e451279 ("torture: Allow inter-stutter interval to be
specified").

> Thank you very much for locating this one!!!

You are welcome.

> Thanx, Paul

Sebastian