Re: [PATCH] Make sure timers have migrated before killingmigration_thread

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 15:29 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > since _cpu_up() and _cpu_down() can never run in
> > parallel, because of cpu_add_remove_lock. 
> 
> Ah indeed. I guess your initial patch works then. 

One thing I found surprising was that a cpu's rt-bandwidth renewal could be
dependant on another cpu's (rt-bandwidth) timer firing ontime. In this case, we
had migration/23 pulled over to CPU0 and we hung later waiting for migration/23
to exit. migration/23 was not exiting because it could not run on CPU0 (as
CPU0's rt-bandwidth had expired). This situation remained forever. I would have
expected CPU0's bandwidth to have been renewed independent of some timer on
CPU23 to fire - maybe I am missing something not obvious in the code?

- vatsa
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