Re: kernel BUG at kernel/sched/core.c:1465!

[Michael Wang]

On 09/20/2012 08:58 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:38:47PM +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
>> Could you please try below patch and see whether the new WARNING
>> appear or not?
>>
>> And cc Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> since wq_worker_sleeping() doesn't
>> work as it's introduced...
> 
> Ok, now that you mentioned workqueues, I remember the powernow-k8
> workaround from Tejun a couple of days ago and looking at Linus' tree
> from today, he actually merged a fix for exactly that:
> 
> commit c5c473e29c641380aef4a9d1f9c39de49219980f
> Merge: 925a6f0bf8bd 6889125b8b4e
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Sep 19 11:00:07 2012 -0700
> 
>     Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
>     
>     Pull workqueue / powernow-k8 fix from Tejun Heo:
>      "This is the fix for the bug where cpufreq/powernow-k8 was tripping
>       BUG_ON() in try_to_wake_up_local() by migrating workqueue worker to a
>       different CPU.
> 
> and this is exactly the same BUG_ON I'm hitting. and powernowk8_target
> is in the stack trace so it has to be the same issue.
> 
> I'll update my tree to latest Linus and retest.

Happen to see the problem solved.

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.
> 

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