Re: [PATCH 32/35] clockevents: Fix cpu down race for hrtimer based broadcasting

[Preeti U Murthy]

On 03/02/2015 08:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:19:05PM +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
>> The problem reported in the changelog of this patch is causing severe
>> regressions very frequently on our machines for certain usecases. It would
>> help to put in a fix in place first and then follow that up with these
>> cleanups.  A fix on the below lines :
> 
> Regression how? Neither Thomas' Changelog, nor yours mention its a
> regression.
> 
> If its a (recent) Regression you need to have a Fixes tag at the very
> least. So when was this broken and by which patch?
> 

It was found recently when doing a hotplug stress test on POWER, that
the machine hits lockups spewing

NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#20 stuck for 23s! [swapper/20:0]

or

INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2
4 25 26 27 28 29 30 31} (detected by 6, t=2102 jiffies, g=1617, c=1616,
q=1441)

and many other messages about lockups.

This issue was reported here:
http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
and was traced to
commit 7cba160ad789a powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management,
which exposed the loophole in commit 5d1638acb9f6(tick: Introduce
hrtimer based broadcast) and is reported in the changelog of the patch.

Regards
Preeti U Murthy

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