Comment 12 for bug 1097213

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Mathieu Poirier (mathieu.poirier-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: switcher_off_hotplug_cpu.sh failed on IKS kernel

More investigation on this problem yields that enabling CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ seems to be at the source of the problem. When the config isn't set the problem can't be observed.

Moreover, the problem can be reproduced on snowball using a stock 3.8-rc4 kernel but it takes much, much more time.