Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:17:52 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: stop_machine lockup issue in 3.9.y. |
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:15:40PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >First of all, kudos for tracking the issue down. While the removal of > >looping limit in softirq handling was the direct cause for making the > >problem visible, it's very bothering that we have softirq runaway. > >Finding out the perpetrator shouldn't be hard. Something like the > >following should work (untested). Once we know which softirq (prolly > >the network one), we can dig deeper. > > The patch below assumes my fix is not in the code, right?
Yeap.
> I'll work on this, but it will probably be next week before > I have time...gotta catch up on some other things first.
Thanks a lot for hunting this down!
-- tejun
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