rcu_sched stall while waiting in csd_lock_wait()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 09:01:19AM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am observing following rcu_sched stall while executing `perf record -a  --
> sleep 1` with one of the arm64 platform. It looks like that stalled cpu was
> waiting in csd_lock_wait() from where it never came out,and so the stall.
> Any help/pointer for further debugging would be very helpful. Problem also
> reproduced with 4.13.0-rc3.

I'm sitting on this patch:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/commit/?h=locking/core&id=15377ef4fe0c86eb7fa1099575b2e86357d99e42

please give that a spin.