RCU lockup issues when CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=n - any one else seeing this?

Abdul Haleem abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 22 01:51:32 PDT 2017


On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 08:49 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:55:04 -0700
> David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:19:28 +1000
> > 
> > > Thanks here's an updated version with a couple more bugs fixed. If
> > > you could try testing, that would be much appreciated.  
> > 
> > I'm not getting RCU stalls on sparc64 any longer with this patch.
> > 
> > I'm really happy you guys were able to figure out what was going
> > wrong. :-)
> > 
> > Feel free to add my Tested-by:
> > 
> 
> Like wise - 16 hours of clean run with the latest
> 
> Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
> 
> Thanks for all the hard work everyone put into this one, great to
> cross it off the list!
> 
> Jonathan
> 

No more RCU stalls on PowerPC, system is clean when idle or with some
test runs.

Thank you all for your time and efforts in fixing this.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre






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