linux-kernel - Re: [Patch -tip 0/4] Creation of the initcall tracer

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:31:06 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [Patch -tip 0/4] Creation of the initcall tracer


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> i've integrated tip/tracing/fastboot into tip/master and have started 
> testing it. It passed the basic tests already so i've just pushed out 
> the new tip/master. Please double-check that i have not messed up the 
> rename or the integration somewhere.

FYI, -tip testing found a boot hang with CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER=y, on a 
32-bit T60 laptop. I've attached the config that provokes the hang. (you 
need initcall_debug on the boot commandline)

The hang always happens after a specific initcall, shortly after tracing 
is enabled. It just hangs indefinitely there, the last line displayed 
was:

 [   0.004017] initcall ehci_hcd_init+0x0/0x80 returned 0 after 228 msecs

it should have printed this next:

[    0.808024] calling  ohci_hcd_mod_init+0x0/0x80 @ 10

but that line is never printed.

i've bisected the hang down to this specific commit:

 | 35df98dfe2b2503436a8cfda301657810df50a3a is first bad commit
 | commit 35df98dfe2b2503436a8cfda301657810df50a3a
 | Author: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
 | Date:   Tue Sep 23 11:38:18 2008 +0100
 |
 |     tracing/ftrace: launch boot tracing after pre-smp initcalls

An idea: maybe the boot tracer is interacting with the ftrace self-tests 
somehow? CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST=y is enabled.

another thing i noticed is that the sysprof tracer was initialized and 
self-tested shortly before the hang occured. Might be unrelated.

the bisection log is:

 # bad:  [6522eab5] Merge branch 'x86/uv'
 # good: [699b81f5] Merge branch 'x86/iommu'
 # bad:  [8007aae9] timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
 # good: [7f29b23d] Merge branch 'core/rcu'
 # bad:  [a54f17e3] manual merge of tracing/fastboot
 # good: [bcbbe946] tracing/ftrace: make tracing suitable to run the b
 # good: [d7095e5a] Merge branch 'fastboot'
 # bad:  [35df98df] tracing/ftrace: launch boot tracing after pre-smp
 # good: [42aaa6be] tracing/ftrace: give an entry on the config for bo

	Ingo

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