Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > FYI, I just hit this hang on 2.6.24-rc6 without any extra patches. So,
> > unless 2.6.24-rc7 did anything to fix this issue, this is a high
> > priority bug (IMHO).
>
> i'm wondering why this only triggered now. Is this something new in
> 2.6.24?

It only triggeres with the switching of the idle governors. And not just
one, you need to switch twice. The first loading of a governor does not
call cpu_idle_wait, but the second one does. NO_HZ must also be enabled,
plus this needs to happen when no events or threads are scheduled to run
on a CPU, which limits this to boot up.

Also, this only seems to happen on my 2x2 (4way) and only once in a while.

I'm surprised that I'm the only one so far to report it. I can boot up the
2.6.23 kernel on this box to see if it also hangs sometimes. But, as I
said, it may take several hundreds of tries to see it.

-- Steve

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