From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758115Ab1GKQiy (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:38:54 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:47724 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758083Ab1GKQix (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:38:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:38:48 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] Check for use of RCU from dyntick-idle mode Message-ID: <20110711163848.GF2245@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20110708154331.GA20161@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110711160330.GC4109@somewhere.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110711160330.GC4109@somewhere.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:03:32PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 08:43:31AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This set of patches adds checks for use of RCU from "extended quiescent > > states" such as dyntick-idle mode. Such use is grossly illegal because > > RCU by definition ignores CPUs that are in extended quiescent states. > > In the case of dyntick-idle mode, the only way for RCU to avoid ignoring > > such CPUs would be to wake them up periodically, which would defeat the > > whole purpose of dyntick-idle mode. > > > > The good news is that Frederic got this effort started. The bad news is > > that there are several cases where RCU read-side critical sections appear > > in dyntick-idle mode. > > Ok, let me send to you the patch that splits up rcu/tickless logic and I'll try > to fix up what you reported to me in ppc. Very good, thank you! > BTW, are you aware of other cases? You mentioned "several" :) PowerPC's hypercall-exit trace event will also cause this complaint. Plus I thought you saw some others. Thanx, Paul