On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:37:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:01:51PM +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 08:36 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > And I finally did get some near misses from an earlier commit, so we > > > should consider your patch to be officially off the hook. > > > > Yay, I like it when it's not my fault. I'll redo it with the ifdef > > CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. > > Hey, I didn't say it wasn't your fault, only that it -officially- wasn't > your fault. ;-) And I believe that I found my bug in this commit (lots more testing still required, but the preponderance of evidence and all that): 2cc0c7f07143 ("rcu: Eliminate ->rcu_qs_ctr from the rcu_dynticks structure") So it really isn't your fault. Of course, the real reason for the lack of fault on your part will not because I believe I found the bug elsewhere, but instead because I will be dropping your patch (and mine as well) on Frederic's advice. ;-) Thanx, Paul