Hello,
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > my kernel reported:
> >
> > NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 20
>
> Thats TASKLET_SOFTIRQ
I suppose you're right, and it's only me that fails to see that. Just
from looking on the code, I'd say TASKLET_SOFTIRQ is 5. Ah, OK, I see,
0x20 == 1 << TASKLET_SOFTIRQ.
> > I cannot interpret it, but probably this is bad, because before
> > bc5393a6c9c0e70b4b43fb2fb63e3315e9a15c8f this used to BUG().
>
> We removed the BUG, because it's a situation where the kernel can
> easily recover. It should never happen that the kernel goes to sleep
> with a pending softirq, but it's not a fatal error.
>
> > This happend while having a high load. Up to now it only happend once
> > and I cannot reproduce it.
>
> That's hard to tell then. Without a reproducible test case I can not
> do much to help debugging this.
Is there something I can do to be able to report more if it reoccurs?
Can you isolate the problem? Has it to do with the arch-specific timing
code? With the hardware?
Best regards and thanks
Uwe
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