Re: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 19:49 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:29 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 03:56:30PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:09:20PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > > > This happened of a virtual guest (Linux mail 3.2.0-35-virtual #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:02:05 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
> > > 
> > > 3.2 is rather old and this looks to be a stock Ubuntu kernel. May want
> > > to file a Bugzilla (or whatever they call it) with them.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Jan  2 13:24:08 mail kernel: [3531872.484283] INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)
> > > 
> > > 0 jiffies?
> > 
> > One possibility is that they are missing commit a10d206e (rcu: Fix
> > day-one dyntick-idle stall-warning bug), at least assuming that
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.  This went into 3.6, IIRC.
> 
> If that does fix the issue, we probably should send that off to Ben for
> inclusion into 3.2 stable.

If I read the Ubuntu changelog correctly, Ralf's machine is running a
version based on 3.2.34, which already has this change (I applied it in
3.2.32).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
                                    A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.

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