Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups

From: Pranith Kumar
Date: Sat Aug 23 2014 - 20:26:58 EST


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It might well! Another possibility is that the early_initcall function
> doing the synchronize_rcu() is happening before the early_initcall
> creating the RCU grace-period kthreads.
>
> Seems like we need to close both holes. Let's see how your patch works
> for Amit, and I am testing a patch for the possible early_initcall
> ordering issue.

I checked the init call which is calling synchronize_rcu():
subsys_initcall(pm_sysrq_init); this is being called after
early_initcall.

The order of initcalls is early, core, postcore, arch, subsys, fs,
device, late. So I guess that is ok.

I wonder why it was not showing up in 12.04. I have a dual boot. Will
test it out and see if I can find something.

--
Pranith
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/