Re: NOHZ: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123native_smp_send_reschedule

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu May 09 2013 - 08:55:40 EST


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:50:40PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Looks like we're sending a resched IPI to a cpu which is not online
> yet in order to start the MCE polling timer. So the rcu* options are
> kinda unlikely to be related, AFAICT.

On a second thought, they must be somehow indirectly related because I
had "rcu_nocbs=4-7" on the command line and have the warning on the same
CPUs: 4 - 7.

Actually, NO_HZ_FULL_ALL makes all CPUs full dynticks so I'd guess the
RCU callback offloading happens on all of them, thus the warning can
happen on every CPU which is in full dynticks mode but not online yet.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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