Re: [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 1/6] Cleanups and fixes for RCU in faceof heavy CPU-hotplug stress

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Mon Aug 17 2009 - 14:24:43 EST


On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 09:51 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> These pass tests combining rcutorture and continuous CPU-hotplug
> operations, in other words, no sleeping between successive CPU-hotplug
> operations. This set does not fix the bug involving deadlocks through
> rcutorture, kthread_stop(), and migration threads. However, this bug
> does not affect production systems, so should not stand in the way of
> applying these patches.

Commit 63706172f332fd3f6e7458ebfb35fa6de9c21dc5, "kthreads: rework
kthread_stop()", looks like it fixes kthread_stop to work concurrently.
That may fix the issue you observed.

- Josh Triplett

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/