On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 07:19:34PM +0000, David Chen wrote: > Hi Greg, > > We recently hit a hung task timeout issue in synchronize_rcu_expedited on 4.14 branch. > The issue seems to be identical to the one described in `fd6bc19d7676 rcu: Fix missed wakeup of exp_wq waiters` > Can we backport it to 4.14 and 4.19 branch? > The patch doesn't apply cleanly, but it should be trivial to resolve, just do this > > - wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(rsp->expedited_sequence) & 0x3]); > + wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(s) & 0x3]); > > I don't know if we should do it for 4.9, because the handling of sequence number is a bit different. Please provide a working backport, me hand-editing patches does not scale, and this way you get the proper credit for backporting it (after testing it). You have tested, this, right? thanks, greg k-h
