Boot failure on emev2/kzm9d (was: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Paul,

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 05:53:42PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> +void rcu_dump_rcu_sched_tree(void)
>> +{
>> +     struct rcu_head rh;
>> +     unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> +     rcu_dump_rcu_node_tree(&rcu_sched_state);  /* Initial state. */
>> +     local_irq_save(flags);
>> +     // call_rcu(&rh, do_nothing_cb);
>> +     local_irq_restore(flags);
>> +     // schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(5 * HZ);  /* Or whatever delay. */
>> +     rcu_dump_rcu_node_tree(&rcu_sched_state); /* GP state. */
>> +     //synchronize_sched();  /* Probably hangs. */
>> +     //rcu_barrier();  /* Drop RCU's references to rh before return. */
>> +}

>>
>> When enabling any of the 4 commented-out lines in rcu_dump_rcu_sched_tree(),
>> it will lock up.
>
> OK, but that includes schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(5 * HZ), right?

Yes it does.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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