Re: [rcu] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Feb 04 2015 - 11:43:55 EST


On Åro, 2015-02-04 at 08:28 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:10:56PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Åro, 2015-02-04 at 07:56 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Actually the timeout versions but I think that doesn't matter.
> > > > The wait_on_bit will busy-loop with testing for the bit. Inside the loop
> > > > it calls the 'action' which in my case will be bit_wait_io_timeout().
> > > > This calls schedule_timeout().
> > >
> > > Ah, good point.
> > >
> > > > See proof of concept in attachment. One observed issue: hot unplug from
> > > > commandline takes a lot more time. About 7 seconds instead of ~0.5.
> > > > Probably I did something wrong.
> > >
> > > Well, you do set the timeout to five seconds, and so if the condition
> > > does not get set before the surviving CPU finds its way to the
> > > out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout(), you are guaranteed to wait for at
> > > least five seconds.
> > >
> > > One alternative approach would be to have a loop around a series of
> > > shorter waits. Other thoughts?
> >
> > Right! That was the issue. It seems it works. I'll think also on
> > self-adapting interval as you said below. I'll test it more and send a
> > patch.
>
> Sounds good!
>
> Are you doing ARM, ARM64, or both? I of course vote for both. ;-)

I'll do both but first I need to find who has ARM64 board in my team.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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