Re: qemu:arm test failure due to commit 8053871d0f7f (smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking)

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat Apr 18 2015 - 19:41:01 EST


On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 04:23:25PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my qemu test for arm:vexpress fails with the latest upstream kernel. It fails
> hard - I don't get any output from the console. Bisect points to commit
> 8053871d0f7f ("smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking").
> Reverting this commit fixes the problem.
>

Additional observation: The system boots if I add "-smp cpus=4" to the qemu
options. It does still hang, however, with "-smp cpus=2" and "-smp cpus=3".

Guenter
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