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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram•es>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, paulus@samba•org,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: irq work racing with timer interrupt can result in timer interrupt hang
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 15:08:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509220845.GY8754@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509215005.GA28239@visitor2.iram.es>

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 06:41:13AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 05:47:12PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > > I am seeing an issue where a CPU running perf eventually hangs.
> > > Traces show timer interrupts happening every 4 seconds even
> > > when a userspace task is running on the CPU.
> > 
> > Is this by chance every 4.2 seconds?  The reason I ask is that
> > Paul Clarke and I are seeing an interrupt every 4.2 seconds when
> > he runs NO_HZ_FULL, and are trying to get rid of it.  ;-)
> 
> Hmmm, it's close to 2^32 nanoseconds, isnt't it suspiscious?

Now that you mention it...  ;-)

So you are telling me that we are not succeeding in completely turning
off the decrementer interrupt?

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09  7:47 [PATCH] powerpc: irq work racing with timer interrupt can result in timer interrupt hang Anton Blanchard
2014-05-09  9:52 ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-10  4:26   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-10 15:36     ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-10 22:25       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-11  8:15         ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-11  8:37           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-11  8:43             ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-11  9:03               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-11  9:07                 ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-09 13:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-09 21:50   ` Gabriel Paubert
2014-05-09 22:08     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-05-10  6:33       ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-10 16:33         ` Paul E. McKenney

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