linux-kernel - Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:50:48 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:10 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Rank 3: getnstimeofday (warning)
> > > 	Reported 309 times (2446 total reports)
> > > 	[suspend resume] getnstimeofday() is called before
> > > timekeeping is
> >         resumed
> > 
> > > Rank 6: hres_timers_resume (warning)
> > > 	Reported 188 times (1024 total reports)
> > > 	[suspend resume] hres_timers_resume() is incorrectly
> > > called with interrupts on
> > 
> > Both have the same root cause. Something enables interrupts in the 
> > early resume path. IIRC, there was a culprit identified recently. 
> > Rafael ?
> 
> This can be debugged automatically today, using lockdep, by using a 
> 'helper lock':
> 
>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct lockdep_map, helper_lock);
> 
> Then mark the lock irq-safe by doing something like:
> 
> static void mark_lock_irqsafe(void)
> {
> 	unsigned long flags;
> 	int cpu;
> 
> 	local_irq_save(flags);
> 	irq_enter(0);
> 
> 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> 		lock_acquire(&per_cpu(helper_lock, cpu), 0, 0, 0, 0,
> NULL, 0); lock_release(&per_cpu(helper_lock, cpu), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
> 0); }
> 
> 	irq_exit(0);
> 	local_irq_restore(flags);
> }
> 
> Then, the resume path, when it disables irqs, you can disallow 
> irq-enable via:
> 
> 	local_irq_disable();
> 	lock_acquire(&__get_cpu_var(helper_lock), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
> 0); ...
> 	<extensive suspend or resume codepaths, callbacks> 
> 	...
> 	lock_release(&__get_cpu_var(helper_lock), 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
> 0); local_irq_enable();
> 
> And lockdep will warn if any function inbetween enables IRQs, by 
> emitting a splat about incorrectly enabled hardirqs. It will warn 
> about the specific place and will emit a relevant backtrace, - not 
> just the handler in general.

looks like an interesting approach; it'll pinpoint the bad guy exactly
where he's enabling interrupts.. (assuming he's using kernel facilities
of course)



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