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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:41:08 +0100 From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de> To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, mingo@...e.hu, andi@...stfloor.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de, manfred@...orfullife.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make treercu safe for suspend and resume * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > Hello! > > Kudos to both Dhaval Giani and Jens Axboe for finding a bug in treercu > that causes warnings after suspend-resume cycles in Dhaval's case and > during stress tests in Jens's case. It would also probably cause failures > if heavily stressed. The solution, ironically enough, is to revert to > rcupreempt's code for initializing the dynticks state. And the patch > even results in smaller code -- so what was I thinking??? > > This is 2.6.29 material, given that people really do suspend and resume > Linux these days. ;-) sadly even with this patch i still get this oops when doing modprobe rcutorture; sleep 2s; rmmod rcutorture [ 74.413097] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 74.413424] IP: [<(null)>] (null) [ 74.413651] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 74.413956] last sysfs file: /sys/block/ram9/range [ 74.414039] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: rcutorture] [ 74.414039] [ 74.414039] Pid: 4997, comm: rcu_torture_wri Tainted: G W (2.6.28-05692-g7d3b56b-dirty #167) System Name [ 74.414039] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 74.414039] EIP is at 0x0 [ 74.414039] EAX: d0afd130 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c01612a6 EDX: 00000006 [ 74.414039] ESI: d0afd130 EDI: 0000001c EBP: c0b03fe0 ESP: c0b03fd4 [ 74.414039] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 74.414039] Process rcu_torture_wri (pid: 4997, ti=c0b03000 task=c98bce00 task.ti=c988b000) [ 74.414039] Stack: [ 74.414039] c01612ad 00000200 00000001 c0b03ff8 c012aa97 0000000a c988beac 00000046 [ 74.414039] c012aa28 c988bebc c01042c2 [ 74.414039] Call Trace: [ 74.414039] [<c01612ad>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x65/0x79 [ 74.414039] [<c012aa97>] ? __do_softirq+0x6f/0xf6 [ 74.414039] [<c012aa28>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0xf6 [ 74.414039] <IRQ> <0> [<c012a9a5>] ? irq_exit+0x40/0x7c [ 74.414039] [<c0110ce1>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x73 [ 74.414039] [<c0103521>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34 [ 74.414039] [<c01219f7>] ? finish_task_switch+0x4d/0x8b [ 74.414039] [<c014007b>] ? tick_check_oneshot_change+0xb1/0xf9 [ 74.414039] [<c07a091f>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x47 [ 74.414039] [<c01219f7>] ? finish_task_switch+0x4d/0x8b [ 74.414039] [<c01219aa>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0x8b [ 74.414039] [<c079e366>] ? schedule+0x404/0x450 [ 74.414039] [<c079e582>] ? schedule_timeout+0x70/0x95 [ 74.414039] [<c012e13a>] ? process_timeout+0x0/0xf [ 74.414039] [<c079e57d>] ? schedule_timeout+0x6b/0x95 [ 74.414039] [<c079e5c0>] ? schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x19/0x1b [ 74.414039] [<c0136bcc>] ? kthread+0x3e/0x66 [ 74.414039] [<c0136b8e>] ? kthread+0x0/0x66 [ 74.414039] [<c0103643>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 74.414039] Code: Bad EIP value. [ 74.414039] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:c0b03fd4 [ 74.422275] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- [ 74.422406] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Greetings Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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