Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: Reset hrtimer cpu base proper on CPU hotplug

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jan 29 2018 - 04:57:47 EST


On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:20:48AM +0100, Sebastian Sewior wrote:
> On 2018-01-26 14:09:17 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > find this one. ;-) But it did pass rcutorture testing for a great many
> > years, didn't it? :-/
>
> It started to trigger better (or at all) on our test box with
> modprobe kvm_intel preemption_timer=n
>
> on the host kernel so maybe a completely unrelated change helped to
> trigger this.

Good point!

And testing continues, currently at 108 hours of TREE01 without any
waylayed timers, so looking good! ;-)

Just kicked off another 70 hours worth.

Thanx, Paul