Le Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 07:14:41AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 02:46:16PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Le Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 12:29:40AM +0800, Mingcong Bai a écrit :
> > > Hi Frederic,
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > Sorry for the lag, I still don't understand how this specific commit
> > > > can produce this issue. Can you please retry with and without this
> > > > commit
> > > > reverted?
> > >
> > > Just tested v6.12-rc6 with and without the revert. Without the revert, the
> > > touchpad and the wireless adapter both stopped working, whereas with the
> > > revert, both devices functions as normal.
> > >
> > > I have attached the dmesg for both kernels below. Unlike the log we got
> > > last
> > > time, there is no direct reference to tg3 any more, but the NMI backtrace
> > > still pointed to NetworkManager and net/netlink-related functions
> > > (perhaps a
> > > debug kernel would be more helpful?). Here's a snippet:
> > >
> > > [ 10.337720] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on
> > > CPUs/tasks: { P683 } 21 jiffies s: 781 root: 0x0/T
> > > [ 10.339168] rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
> > > [ 10.591480] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 8
> > > [ 11.777733] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on
> > > CPUs/tasks: { 3-.... } 21 jiffies s: 1077 root: 0x8/.
> > > [ 11.779210] rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
> > > [ 11.780630] Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 3:
> > > [ 11.780659] NMI backtrace for cpu 3
> > > [ 11.780663] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1027 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted
> > > 6.12.0-aosc-main #1
> >
> > Funny, this happens on bootup and no CPU has ever gone offline, so the path
> > modified by this patch shouldn't have been taken. And yet this commit has
> > an influence to the point of reliably triggering that stall.
> >
> > I'm running off of ideas, Paul any clue?
>
> Here is one straw to grasp at...
>
> Is it possible that one of the CPUs had a problem coming online at boot,
> and therefore backed out of the online process, thus appearing to at
> least some of the CPU-hotplug notifiers to have gone offline?
I looked for it in the dmesg and there are indeed rejected CPUs but very early,
before secondary boot-up.
Just in case, Mingcong Bai can you test the following patch without the
revert and see if it triggers something?
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 35949ec1f935..b4f8ed8138d3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -5170,6 +5170,7 @@ void rcutree_migrate_callbacks(int cpu)
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
bool needwake;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp))
return;
Thanks.
>
> Thanx, Paul
