Re: Observing RCU stalls in kernel 5.4/5.10/5.15/6.1 stable trees

From: Sven-Haegar Koch
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 09:45:53 EST


On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Luiz Capitulino wrote:

> On 2023-06-14 05:20, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> > On 2023-06-14 11:14:49 [+0200], gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Oops, missed this.
> > >
> > > Yes, there might be, can you do 'git bisect' and track down the patch
> > > that fixed this?
> >
> > There was a report of a lockup during boot in VMs yesterday. If I
> > remember correctly this still exists and might be related to this
> > report. I'm going to have a look.
>
> Thanks, Sebastian. Do you have a link for the discussion?

May be this, talking about the same commit as cause as this thread:

Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Align tick_sched_timer() with the HZ
tick. -- regression report
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5a56290d-806e-b9a5-f37c-f21958b5a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

May not have been the best idea to respond with such big analysis to a 3
months old dead thread, gets lost extremely easy.

c'ya
sven-haegar

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