Re: stop_machine lockup issue in 3.9.y.

[Ben Greear]

On 06/05/2013 08:26 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 20:14 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > Ah, so, that's why it's showing up now.  We probably have had the same
> > issue all along but it used to be masked by the softirq limiting.  Do
> > you care to revive the 10 iterations limit so that it's limited by
> > both the count and timing?  We do wanna find out why softirq is
> > spinning indefinitely tho.
>
> Yes, no problem, I can do that.

Limiting it to 5000 fixes my problem, so if you wanted it larger than 10, that would
be fine by me.

I can send a version of my patch easily enough if we can agree on the max number of
loops (and if indeed my version of the patch is acceptable).

Thanks,
Ben


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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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