Re: Bug 218665 - nohz_full=0 prevents kernel from booting

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Thorsten.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 07:48:33AM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> > Can you elaborate why Bjorn's case is different?
> 
> Well "not booting at all when using 'nohz_full=0'"[as reported two
> times] and "I start neovim, send SIGSTOP (i.e. ^Z) to it, start another
> neovim instance and upon sending SIGSTOP to that instance all of
> userspace locks up - 100% reproducible."[while no 'nohz_full=0' in use]
> at least on the first sight to and outsider sound a lot like different
> problems to me -- but of course that impression might be wrong and you
> know better about these things.

You are right. That is very different.

> > I was assuming it was the
> > same problem and that Oleg's fixes would address the issue.
> 
> Bjorn, could you give it a try?

Yeah, I'm curious whether it's just a different symptom of the same problem.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun