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Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage warnings in 3.3.0
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:08:37 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hmmm...  What CPU family is this running on?  From the look of the
> stack, it is sneaking out of idle into softirq without telling RCU.
> This would cause RCU to complain bitterly about being invoked from
> the idle loop -- and RCU ignores CPUs in the idle loop.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul

Sun4... Ping David.