Re: hung tasks in 3.18.0-rc1-00221-gc3351df

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Oct 28 2014 - 12:28:11 EST


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:16:43AM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > rcu: Make rcu_barrier() understand about missing rcuo kthreads
>
> I can not trigger the previous problem at will so my testing is not very
> useful. I tested the previous patch that you sent but the problem did
> not trigger, and yesterday applied this one and it still does not
> trigger, but I an using remote sessions only for now (no desktop).
>
> At least it's not clearly broken :)

A couple of other people had more reproducible test setups and confirmed
that it fixed them.

But yes, there are no doubt other RCU bugs waiting to be found. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

--
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/