On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 01:32:06PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote: > > > > If I'm not mistaken, the bug is in tick_nohz_restart. According to the > > I think you are mistaken. Let's look at CPU0 only: OK. > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.829698: __tick_nohz_idle_enter: can stop idle tick > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.829774: __tick_nohz_idle_enter: entering stop_sched_tick > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830001: tick_stop: success=1 dependency=NONE > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830127: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=109e949c > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830380: jcore_pit_set_next_event: pit 109eccb0 0 set delta 82124660 en=4410000 cntr=75 throt=82124660 > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830498: hrtimer_start: hrtimer=109e949c function=tick_sched_timer expires=150840000000 softexpires=150840000000 > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830720: jcore_pit_set_next_event: pit 109eccb0 0 set delta 539823 en=4410000 cntr=34 throt=539823 > > Tick is programmed to fire at 150.84 > > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830822: __tick_nohz_idle_enter: returning from stop_sched_tick > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.830940: rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.831072: rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.831165: cpu_idle: state=0 cpu_id=0 > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.831269: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 > <idle>-0 [000] .... 150.831368: cpu_startup_entry: enabled irqs, spinning > > CPU spins and waits for an interrupt to happen > > > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.841530: rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 > > Dropping out of the spin about the time we expect the PIT interrupt to > fire. And an interrupt is the reason why we drop out because the 'need > resched' flag is not set and we end up in: OK, I missed that. > <idle>-0 [000] d.s. 150.841724: tick_irq_enter: update jiffies via irq > > which is called from irq_enter() > > <idle>-0 [000] d.s. 150.841918: tick_do_update_jiffies64: finished do_timer(1) > <idle>-0 [000] d.s. 150.842348: tick_do_update_jiffies64: finished updating jiffies > > > So here we would expect: > > irq_handler_entry: irq=16 name=jcore_pit > ... > irq_handler_exit ..... > > > or any other interrupt being invoked. But we see this here: According to the trace the 'irq' is soft ('s'). I couldn't find the code path from the idle loop to softirq but so maybe this is a bug. Is it possible that in some cases the arch irq entry does not get identified as a hard irq or traced and then the subsequent tick code thinks it's running in a softirq and behaves differently? I could add more tracing around irq entry. > <idle>-0 [000] d... 150.842603: __tick_nohz_idle_enter: can stop idle tick > > And that's just wrong. Can you explain? > Now looking at CPU1 at the same time: > > <idle>-0 [001] d.h. 150.841829: irq_handler_entry: irq=16 name=jcore_ > <idle>-0 [001] d.h. 150.842054: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=109f449c > <idle>-0 [001] d.h. 150.842218: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=109f449c function=tick_sched_timer now=150840579940 > > So there the PIT interrupt enters and runs the interrupt handler. > > Now looking deeper at the PIT interrupts: > > kworker/0:1-208 [000] d.h. 150.641822: irq_handler_entry: irq=16 name=jcore_pit > kworker/0:1-208 [000] d.h. 150.644928: irq_handler_exit: irq=16 ret=handled > > > <idle>-0 [001] dnh. 150.645370: irq_handler_entry: irq=16 name=jcore_pit > <idle>-0 [001] dnh. 150.647444: irq_handler_exit: irq=16 ret=handled > > Both CPUs have the same interrupt number for their per cpu PIT interrupt. > > IIRC you said earlier when the percpu interrupt discussion happened, that > your per cpu PITs have distinct interrupt numbers, but that does not seem > the case here. No, I said the opposite. They use the same irq number but they're each wired to their own cpu, and there's no way for them to fire on the wrong cpu. Rich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html