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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Possible regression due to "hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq"
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 10:14:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hvbg3gfeb.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150507132543.GA14889@verge.net.au> (Simon Horman's message of "Thu, 7 May 2015 22:25:43 +0900")

Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> writes:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:35:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Simon Horman wrote:
>> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> > kernel BUG at kernel/irq_work.c:135!
>> 
>>   BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
>> 
>> So something enables interrupts in the periodic tick handling
>> machinery. Seems you have high resolution timers disabled, but nohz
>> enabled. And that code path has a local_irq_disable/enable pair which
>> causes havoc. Patch below.
>
> Thanks for your quick response. I have been able to confirm that
> when applied on top of next-20150507 the problem I observed no longer
> manifests. I have successfully tested it on all the boards
> where I previously observed a problem.
>
> If you are planning to formally submit the patch below feel free to add:
>
> Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>

FWIW, I confirmed this fixed a boot hang on my kzm9d in next-20150507
also.

Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07 11:17 Possible regression due to "hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq" Simon Horman
2015-05-07 12:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-05-07 13:25   ` Simon Horman
2015-05-08 17:14     ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2015-05-08  9:25   ` [tip:timers/core] nohz: Fix !HIGH_RES_TIMERS hang tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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