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SubjectRe: NOHZ: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123 native_smp_send_reschedule, round 2
On 05/20/2013 12:50 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:16:33AM +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
>> I suppose the reason is that the cpu we passed to
>> mod_delayed_work_on() has a chance to become offline before we
>> disabled irq, what about check it before send resched ipi? like:
>
> I think this is only addressing the symptoms - what we should be doing
> instead is asking ourselves why are we even scheduling work on a cpu if
> the machine goes offline?
>
> I don't know though who should be responsible for killing all that
> work - the workqueue itself or the guy who created it, i.e. cpufreq
> governor...

So there are two questions here:
1. Is gov_queue_work() want to queue the work on offline cpu?
2. Is mod_delayed_work_on() allow offline cpu?

I guess both should be false?

Regards,
Michael Wang

>
> Hmmm.
>



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