From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:27:47 +0100
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I got the following running stock 2.6.20-rt8 on an 4-CPU 1.8GHz
> > Opteron box. The machine continued to run a few rounds of kernbench
> > and LTP. Looks a bit scary -- a tasklet was "stolen" from
> > __tasklet_action().
> >
> > Thoughts? In the meantime, kicking it off again to see if it repeats.
>
> > BUG: at kernel/softirq.c:559 __tasklet_action()
>
> this seems to happen very sporadically. Seems to happen more likely on
> hyperthreading CPUs. It is very likely caused by the
> redesign-tasklet-locking-to-be-sane patch below - which is a quick hack
> of mine from early -rt days. Can you see any obvious bug in it? The
> cmpxchg logic is certainly a bit ... tricky, locking-wise.
Ingo, please don't use cmpxchg() in generic code, we support several
processors that simply cannot do it.
Instead of saying "it's just something special in -rt for now", take
it out now so that what you do eventually push upstream does get
tested.
Thanks.
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