Re: x86_64 Question: Are concurrent IPI requests safe?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed May 11 2016 - 10:35:39 EST


On Wed, 11 May 2016, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:19:16PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > [ 180.434659] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/31/2013
> >
> > can you reproduce on real hardware?
> >
> Unfortunately, I don't have a real hardware to run development kernels.
>
> My Linux environment is limited to 4 CPUs / 1024MB or 2048MB RAM running
> as a VMware guest on Windows. Can somebody try KVM environment with
> 4 CPUs / 1024MB or 2048MB RAM whith partition only plain /dev/sda1
> formatted as XFS?

Can you trigger a back trace on all cpus when the watchdog triggers?

Thanks,

tglx