Re: [patch-3.18.7-rt1] sched/context-tracking: fix PREEMPT_LAZY explosions

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 10:36:20 EST


On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 14:45 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Mike Galbraith | 2015-02-18 12:21:54 [+0100]:
>
> >On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 12:18 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> >
> >> Known issues:
> >>
> >> - lazy preempt on x86_64 leads to a crash with some load.
> >
> >The below still works for me. (it doesn't make nohz_full actually work
> >in rt, but at least folks who want to tinker with it can do so)
> So your box still crashes without it?
>
> The thing is I tried to reproduce it and it does not occur anymore.
> Neither in KVM nor on real HW.

Heh, well that's interesting, I just presumed it would still explode
because you said it would. I'll beat on it any let you know if I'm
carrying a placebo patch or not :)

-Mike

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