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SubjectRe: irq 16: nobody cared

* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> From 3c155e9a22036839c09d98a4acbc7e17a5a3783c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:56:15 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] RCU: Expedite grace periods during suspend/resume
>
> Paul says CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by a
> factor of four. This, in turn, can change timings during suspend and can
> delay interrupts handling, leading to "IRQ XX: nobody cared" splats and
> the machine disabling those interrupt lines for no sensible reason.
>
> Thus, we want to temporarily switch to expedited grace periods when
> suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming. This
> patch does exactly that.

Hm, this really smells like a workaround: treating the symptom, not the
cause.

How can an increase in grace-periods break drivers and suspend? Do we
understand exactly what happens there? If we do, can we fix that instead
of tweaking the RCU timeouts?

Thanks,

Ingo


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