Re: [PATCH 2/2] timers: Fix removed self-IPI on global timer's enqueue in nohz_full

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 11:56:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Le Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 02:26:25PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
> > > > _ The RCU CPU Stall report. I strongly suspect the cause is the hrtimer
> > > >   enqueue to an offline CPU. Let's solve that and we'll see if it still
> > > >   triggers.
> > > 
> > > Sounds like a plan!
> > 
> > Just checking in on this one.  I did reproduce your RCU CPU stall report
> > and also saw a TREE03 OOM that might (or might not) be related.  Please
> > let me know if hammering TREE03 harder or adding some debug would help.
> > Otherwise, I will assume that you are getting sufficient bug reports
> > from your own testing to be getting along with.
> 
> Hehe, there are a lot indeed :-)
> 
> So there has been some discussion on CPUSET VS Hotplug, as a problem there
> is likely the cause of the hrtimer warning you saw, which in turn might
> be the cause of the RCU stalls.
> 
> Do you always see the hrtimer warning along the RCU stalls? Because if so, this
> might help:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240401145858.2656598-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m1bed4d298715d1a6b8289ed48e9353993c63c896

Not always, but why not give it a shot?

							Thanx, Paul