2013/4/13 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do
> not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on.  This state of
> affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running
> for an extended period in kernel mode.  Such a CPU will never run the
> RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state
> machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition.
>
> This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore
> causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition
> and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long.
> "Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is
> quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking.
> The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs
> sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed.
>
> Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

It might be better if I take this patch to get it through
tip:timers/nohz so that I can keep it in sync with the rest. What do
you think?

Thanks.