Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 4 authors, 2012-09-11

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

From: Daniel Lezcano <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-06 20:35:52
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On 09/06/2012 10:04 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Thursday, September 06, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
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On 09/06/2012 09:54 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
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On 09/05/2012 03:41 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Saturday, September 01, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Friday, August 31, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
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On 07/24/2012 11:06 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:12:29PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
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Remove the power field as it is not used.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <redacted>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <redacted>
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.
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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 [off-list ref]
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 [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Cong Wang [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]

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.
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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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