Re: deadlock in synchronize_srcu() in debugfs?

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 11:46:43 EST


On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 08:37 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I have not seen this, but my usual question for __synchronize_srcu()
> is if some other task is blocked holding srcu_read_lock() for that
> same srcu_struct.
>

Not as far as I can see - but that was the scenario I was outlining in
my second email, I guess.

I'll need to reproduce it and a get a fuller view of the system, I only
have the "echo w > sysrq-trigger" output right now.

Thanks,
johannes