Re: Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 13:28:07 EST


Hello, Mike.

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > It doesn't do anything unless the user twiddles the mask to exclude
> > certain (think no_hz_full) CPUs, so there are no clueless victims.
>
> (a plus: testers/robots can twiddle mask to help find bugs, _and_
> nohz_full people can use it if they so choose)

Ah, yeah, it makes sense then. I'm gonna play with a bit and add a
debug option to always force the behavior.

Thanks.

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tejun