Re: [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] updates for tip/tracing/ftrace

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 14:37:21 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:21:47PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > I'm still not able to reproduce, but...
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > these latest ftrace changes caused a lockup on a -tip testsystem:
> > >
> > > Note, even with Rusty's offstack-cpumask fix applied (in latest
> > > -tip), i can reproduce a lockup:
> > >
>
> [ . . . ]
>
> > This looks like it is RCU/stop_machine related. The CPU is stuck in
> > in stop_machine? I see that rcu_torture is running. Does this go away if
> > you turn off rcu_torture?
>
> Grasping at straws... Does Lai's rcu_barrier() fix help?

which one is that?

Ingo
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