Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ + CONFIG_CPU_IDLE freeze the system (Was Re: [PATCH] acpi : remove power from acpi_processor_cx structure)

Daniel Lezcano
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:35:44 -0000

On 09/06/2012 10:04 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, September 06, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 09/06/2012 09:54 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 09/05/2012 03:41 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, September 01, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, August 31, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/24/2012 11:06 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:12:29PM +0200, Daniel
Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>>>> Remove the power field as it is not used.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
>>>>>>> Acked.
>>>>>> Hi Rafael,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did not see this patch going in. Is it possible to
merge it ?
>>>>> I think so.  I''ll take care of it when I get back
from LinuxCon/Plumbers Conf.
>>>>> (early next week).
>>>> Applied to the linux-next branch of the linux-pm.git tree as
v3.7 material.
>>> Thanks Rafael.
>>>
>>>> Are there any other patches you want me to consider for v3.7?
>>> Yes please, I have the per cpu latencies ready to be submitted but
I
>>> want to do extra testing before. Unfortunately, the linux-pm-next
hangs
>>> at boot time on my intel dual core (not related to the patchset).
>>>
>>> I am git bisecting right now.
>>
>> I found the culprit. This is not related to the linux-pm tree but with
>> net-next.
>> The following patch introduced the issue.
>>
>> commit 6bdb7fe31046ac50b47e83c35cd6c6b6160a475d
>> Author: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Fri Aug 10 01:24:50 2012 +0000
>>
>>     netpoll: re-enable irq in poll_napi()
>>
>>     napi->poll() needs IRQ enabled, so we have to re-enable IRQ
before
>>     calling it.
>>
>>     Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>     Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>
>> AFAICS, it has been fixed by commit
>> 072a9c48600409d72aeb0d5b29fbb75861a06631 which is not yet in
linux-pm-next.
>
> If it is present in the current Linus'' tree, you can just pull
this one
> and merge linux-pm-next into it.  It should merge without conflicts.

Ok, thanks.

>> I fall into this issue because NETCONSOLE is set, disabling it allowed
>> me to go further.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am facing to some random freeze on the system which
>> seems to be related to CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y.
>>
>> Disabling one of them, make the freezes to disappear.
>>
>> Is it a known issue ?
>
> Well, there are systems having problems with this configuration, but they
> should be exceptional.  What system is that?

It is a laptop T61p with a Core 2 Duo T9500. Nothing exceptional I
believe. Maybe someone got the same issue ?

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