ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

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	Occurrence:
	- the kernels must be compiled with Hyper Threading support (and
the CPU/MB must support it);
	- a (tc) process is reading statistics from the htb tree and another
tries to delete or deletes the tree.
The bug will not occur if the system is booted with acpi=off or if it's not SMP (HT) capable. I reproduced the bug on 2.6.10-1.770_FCsmp (Fedora Core update package) and vanilla 2.6.11, 2.6.11.5, 2.6.11.6, 2.6.12-rc1 and 2.6.12-rc2 compiled with SMP and ACPI support in order to enable Hyper Threading (with and without preempt, with or without SMT support). The compiler I used is GCC version 3.4.2 (from Fedora Core 3).

Result: almost all the time the system hangs but still can execute SysRq commands.

	How I tested
	~~~~~~~~~~~~
On a console I was running a script that initializes a htb tree on an interface (dummy0) in an endless loop:
	while /bin/true; do . htbdown.dummy0.sh; done
	...and on another console I run tc -s also in an endless loop:
	while /bin/true; do tc -s class sh dev dummy0; done

After a while (sometimes after 2 runs of the htbdown.dummy0.sh script, sometimes after 20) the system hangs. It still responds to SysRq commands and I was able to see the two tc processes running. Sometimes I still have ping replies from it and one time, just one time in 2 days I still was able to log in remotely. There are no printk messages, or no other warnings or errors printed in the system log or kernel log. It just hangs and it seems like something is wasting all the CPU power: when I still was able to log in I noticed that one of the two virtual CPUs was 100% with system interrupts and the other was 100% system. I wasn't able to strace any of the two running tc's. What I was able to paste with the mouse in my console, to catch in a typescript and also the script that initializes the htb tree on dummy0 can be found at ftp://blackblue.iasi.rdsnet.ro/pub/various/k/ . The test host is a 3.0GHz Intel Prescott and I first noticed the bug on a system with a 2.8GHz Intel Northwood, both having motherboards with Intel chipset (865GBF). I am not able to test it in other SMP environments (Intel Xeon or Itanium, AMD Opteron, Dual P3, etc), so I'm not able to tell if it's an ACPI bug, a SMP bug or a Packet Scheduler bug.


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