CPU STALL ISSUE

[Amit Gupta <amitkgupta09@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I am facing one issue with Linux kernel 4.0.4.


CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.0.4+ #19

This issue i am facing with below mentioned two scenario

First Scenario:

At the time when I start using PCIe based Atheros wifi card along with my Ethernet controller. If I am using both standalone then I am not facing this issue.

(I think this is not hardware related issue as with the same combination of h/w but on different linux kernel version (3.4), I am not facing this issue.)

Second Scenario:

This issue also repeated if I keep on executing below mentioned command:

# hostapd -B /etc/hostapd.conf

My main focus is on first scenario.

I googled it this issue and found that few people also faced this issue previously on Linux kernel 3.1/3.2/3.3 . Some people are saying that disabling IPv6 support from kernel configuration will resolve this issue but I need IPv6 support in my kernel due to project specific task.

By digging out into Linux kernel and observing dump stack log(at the time CPU STALL), I found culprit function 'ieee80211_wake_queues_by_reason'.

I go through the series of functions calling by this function, and stuck at one point. I found there are two  'rcu_read_lock();' in sequence.



 So my question is can we call rcu_read_lock() function is sequence(two times) and later call  rcu_read_unlock() one by one;??

Please look into the pictorial representation of my question:

ieee80211_wake_queues_by_reason --
                                                        |----> __ieee80211_wake_queue --->              if (skb_queue_empty(&local->pending[queue])) {
                                                                                                                         rcu_read_lock();
                                                                                                                         ieee80211_propagate_queue_wake(local, queue);
                                                                                                                         rcu_read_unlock();
                                                                                                                         }


ieee80211_propagate_queue_wake(local, queue)
                                                                        | --> netif_wake_subqueue(sdata->dev, ac)
                                                                                                                                       | -->                rcu_read_lock();
                                                                                                                                                             q = rcu_dereference(txq->qdisc);
                                                                                                                                                             __netif_schedule(q);
                                                                                                                                                             rcu_read_unlock();



                                                                                                     

My Approach:

I increased RCU stall time from 21 jiffies to 60 jiffies.

--   CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=21
++ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60

But this does not solve my problem.

Please suggest me any approach to solve this problem.

Thanks,

Amit Gupta

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