Re: [PATCH -next v1 05/12] srcu: Don't queue workqueue handlers to never-online CPUs

[Jiri Slaby]

On 18. 05. 26, 18:13, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > I assume it will be picked to stable
> >
> > Thx for the reply. This answered the second aspect I raised. What about
> > the first: shouldn't this be heading to mainline this cycle, ideally
> > quite soon? Or is this the plan and I misinterpreted the "-next" in the
> > subject?
> >
> > Sadly Jiri (now CCed) afaics didn't yet report if this fix helped to fix
> > the issues they were seeing, but it sounded a lot like it was likely:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/f0351414-41af-4f74-899c-87fb5bb45621@xxxxxxxxxx/

Yes, it did!

You could have checked the linked bug, BTW:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263947#c19

> works nicely without complaining about non-existant CPUs

and:

> seems stopped messages about workqueue lockup and not exist CPUs at 
kernel 7.0.7-1-default now

But:
> FYI the power8 machine hangs using 7.0.7-2.gf1d450c-default, to be 
investigated.

That's likely not related.

thanks,
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js
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