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SubjectRe: RCU CPU stall console spews leads to soft lockup disabled is reasonable ?
On 2015/1/21 15:02, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 02:54:05PM +0800, Zhang Zhen wrote:
>> On 2015/1/21 11:13, Zhang Zhen wrote:
>>> On 2015/1/21 10:26, Zhang Zhen wrote:
>>>> On 2015/1/20 23:25, Don Zickus wrote:
>
> [ . . . ]
>
>>> Sorry, i made a mistake, the log above is based on v3.10.63.
>>> I have tested the latest upstream kernel (based on ec6f34e5b552),
>>> but my test case can't triggered RCU stall warning.
>>>
>>
>> I used git bisect to find the bad commit, but found a irrelevant
>> commit(db5d711e2db776 zram: avoid null access when fail to alloc meta).
>> Before this commit, my test case can easily trigger RCU stall warning,
>> but after this commit, my test case can't trigger RCU stall warning.
>
> I have lost track of exactly what kernel you are using. If you are
> using a recent kernel (v3.18 or thereabouts), one thing to try is to
> apply my stack of RCU CPU stall-warning changes that are on their way
> in, please see v3.19-rc1..630181c4a915 in -rcu, which is at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
>
> These handle the problems that Dave Jones and a few others located this
> past December. Could you please give them a spin?
>
Ok, i will try.

Thanks!
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> I'm totally confused.
>>
>> My test case:
>>
>> //
>> #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> #include <linux/module.h>
>> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>> #include <linux/kthread.h>
>>
>> struct foo {
>> int a;
>> char b;
>> long c;
>> };
>>
>> struct foo gbl_foo = {1, 'a', 2};
>> struct foo *pgbl_foo = &gbl_foo;
>>
>> static int my_kthread(void *data)
>> {
>> DEFINE_SPINLOCK(foo_mutex);
>> struct foo *new_fp;
>> struct foo *old_fp;
>>
>> new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL);
>> spin_lock(&foo_mutex);
>> old_fp = pgbl_foo;
>> *new_fp = *old_fp;
>> new_fp->a = 2;
>> rcu_assign_pointer(pgbl_foo, new_fp);
>> spin_unlock(&foo_mutex);
>> synchronize_rcu();
>> kfree(old_fp);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> static int hello_start(void)
>> {
>> struct task_struct *my_task = NULL;
>> DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hello_lock);
>>
>> my_task = kthread_run(my_kthread, NULL, "my_thread%d", 1);
>>
>> spin_lock_init(&hello_lock);
>> spin_lock(&hello_lock);
>> spin_lock(&hello_lock);
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> static int __init test_init(void)
>> {
>> hello_start();
>>
>> printk(KERN_INFO "Module init\n");
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> static void __exit test_exit(void)
>> {
>> printk(KERN_INFO "Module exit!\n");
>> }
>>
>> module_init(test_init)
>> module_exit(test_exit)
>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> //
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Don
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
>>>>> index 70bf118..833c015 100644
>>>>> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
>>>>> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
>>>>> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
>>>>> * going off.
>>>>> */
>>>>> raw_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, true);
>>>>> - touch_softlockup_watchdog();
>>>>> + //touch_softlockup_watchdog();
>>>>> }
>>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_nmi_watchdog);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> .
>




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