lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Jun]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM64: smp: Silence suspicious RCU usage with ipi tracepoints
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:14:18PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> John Stultz reported an RCU splat on ARM with ipi trace events
> enabled. It looks like the same problem exists on ARM64.
>
> At this point in the IPI handling path we haven't called
> irq_enter() yet, so RCU doesn't know that we're about to exit
> idle and properly warns that we're using RCU from an idle CPU.
> Use trace_ipi_entry_rcuidle() instead of trace_ipi_entry() so
> that RCU is informed about our exit from idle.

I have a problem with $subject. It says 'silence', whereas afaict this
fixes an actual bug, so it should be 'fixes'.


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-06-25 00:01    [W:0.072 / U:0.444 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site