suspicious RCU usage on 4.4-rc2 ARM platform
Juri Lelli
juri.lelli at arm.com
Wed Nov 25 03:53:36 PST 2015
On 24/11/15 08:52, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:27:50PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > I'm hitting these splats while running simple hotplug tests on an ARM
> > TC2 platform. The following seems to cure it, but I don't think it never
> > made it to mainline:
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/12/892
> >
> > Any reason why?
>
> If I remember correctly, it could result in failures on some ARM
> processors. The problem was that this patch assumes that the CPU
> caches remain active throughout, when in fact they can be disabled at an
> inconvenient time. As I understand it, this can result in other updates
> to that cache line being lost when the CPU is powered off.
>
> RMK would know more.
>
Paul, Russell,
thanks for confirming that this is a know problem; I just wanted to be
sure I'm not seeing something new. I guess I'll keep using this fix on
my box while I wait for a proper one.
Best,
- Juri
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