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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	jeremy.linton@arm.com
Subject: Re: Perf hotplug lockup in v4.9-rc8
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:39:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207163910.GA13840@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207143058.GC25605@leverpostej>

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:30:58PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:52:17PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Jeremy noticed a kernel lockup on arm64 when the perf tool was used in
> > parallel with hotplug, which I've reproduced on arm64 and x86(-64) with
> > v4.9-rc8. In both cases I'm using defconfig; I've tried enabling lockdep
> > but it was silent for arm64 and x86.
> > 
> > I haven't yet tested earlier kernels and I'm not sure how long this has
> > been around for; I'm currently building a v4.8 defconfig to compare
> > with. In the meantime, info dump below.
> 
> On v4.8 it hangs on x86, but my SSH session survived. Log below; I'll
> give v4.7 a go...

It seems the lockup has been around at least since v4.6, so I'll give up
trying to find a point when it didn't exist.

Peter had some ideas over IRC, so I'll give those a go atop of v4.9-rc8.

Thanks,
Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-07 13:53 Perf hotplug lockup in v4.9-rc8 Mark Rutland
2016-12-07 14:30 ` Mark Rutland
2016-12-07 16:39   ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2016-12-07 17:53 ` Mark Rutland
2016-12-07 18:34   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-07 19:56     ` Mark Rutland
2016-12-09 13:59     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-12 11:46       ` Will Deacon
2016-12-12 12:42         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-22  8:45           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-22 14:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-22 16:33               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-01-11 14:59       ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-11 16:03         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-11 16:26           ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-11 19:51           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-14 12:28       ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: Fix sys_perf_event_open() vs. hotplug tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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