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SubjectRe: stress-ng --hrtimers hangs system
Hi Kurt,

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:57, Kurt Kanzenbach
<kurt.kanzenbach@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> On Fri Jun 05 2020, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was testing stress-ng on an ARM64 box and I found that it can be killed instantaneously with a --hrtimers 1 test:
> > https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/master/stress-hrtimers.c
> > The console shell locks up immediately after starting the process, and I get this rcu_preempt splat after 21 seconds,
> > letting me know that the grace-periods kernel thread could not run:
>
> interesting. Just tested this on an ARM64 box with v5.6-rt and the
> stress-ng hrtimer test works fine. No lockups, cyclictest results are
> looking good. So maybe this is v5.7 related.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt

This is not actually v5.7 related. I could also reproduce it on a
downstream 5.4 kernel which is how I originally saw it.

Thanks,
-Vladimir

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