Re: [v3.10-rc1] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:502

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sun May 12 2013 - 13:21:45 EST


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:08:50AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> got the splat below when running powertop on plain v3.10-rc1
> >> (i.e. without my previously mentioned revert patch or any other extra
> >> patches). Config attached.
> >
> > OK, it looks like you have context-tracking enabled, so you might be
> > hitting a bug that Steven Rostedt found a few days ago. Could you
> > please try out his fix below?
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm afraid that patch had no effect on
> the warning I got. It's still there.

Other than wondering whether powertop has issues similar to the bug
Steven Rostedt located, I must confess myself clueless. Here are some
diagnostics I can suggest:

1. Run in 32-bit mode. This disables some of the new adaptive-ticks
functionality, so might give a probabilistic indication of where
the bug lies.

2. The standard fallback of bisection.

Would you be willing to do either of these?

Thanx, Paul

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