Re: next: Commit 'mm: Prevent __alloc_pages_nodemask() RCU CPU stall ...' causing hang on sparc32 qemu

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:03:33AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:52:11AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 11/29/2016 11:02 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:32:51PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >>On 11/29/2016 05:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >>>On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:23:08PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >>>>Hi Paul,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>most of my qemu tests for sparc32 targets started to fail in next-20161129.
> > >>>>The problem is only seen in SMP builds; non-SMP builds are fine.
> > >>>>Bisect points to commit 2d66cccd73436 ("mm: Prevent __alloc_pages_nodemask()
> > >>>>RCU CPU stall warnings"); reverting that commit fixes the problem.
> 
> And I have dropped this patch.  Michal Hocko showed me the error of
> my ways with this patch.
> 

:-)

On another note, I still get RCU tracebacks in the s390 tests.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:3775

That is caused by 'rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter';
if I recall correctly we had discussed that earlier.

Thanks,
Guenter