Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:28:17AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:45:49PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:11:55PM +1100, Ross Green wrote:
> > > Continued testing with the latest linux-4.5-rc3 release.
> > > 
> > > Please find attached a copy of traces from dmesg:
> > > 
> > > There is a lot more debug and trace data so hopefully this will shed
> > > some light on what might be happening here.
> > > 
> > > My testing remains run a series of simple benchmarks, let that run to
> > > completion and then leave the system idle away with just a few daemons
> > > running.
> > > 
> > > the self detected stalls in this instance turned up after a days run time.
> > > There were  NO heavy artificial computational loads on the machine.
> > 
> > It does indeed look quiet on that dmesg for a good long time.
> > 
> > The following insanely crude not-for-mainline hack -might- be producing
> > good results in my testing.  It will take some time before I can claim
> > statistically different results.  But please feel free to give it a go
> > in the meantime.  (Thanks to Al Viro for pointing me in this direction.)

Your case was special in that is was hotplug triggering it, right?

I was auditing the hotplug paths involved when I fell ill two weeks ago,
and have not really made any progress on that because of that :/

I'll go have another look, I had a vague feeling for a race back then,
lets see if I can still remember how..