On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 15:14 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the context tracking condition in the code snippet
> > cited above, though. I think that's what caused my problem in the first
> > place — I have CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE && !NO_HZ_FULL. So in 4.15, that
> > means rcu_user_enter() did nothing and rcu_virt_note_context_switch()
> > wasn't called. Hence the observed stalls.
> > 
> > Should rcu_user_enter() itself be conditional on CONTEXT_TRACKING not
> > NO_HZ_FULL? 
> 
> Ah, CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE is only for testing purpose, you should not select
> it, it's going to introduce overhead. Actually I should remove that. Although
> since we have removed CONFIG_NOHZ_FULL_ALL it's the last way we have to test
> NOHZ_FULL from config alone.

I didn't select it. It defaults to y if !NO_HZ_FULL.
I'm turning it off now...