linux-kernel - Re: [git head f4b87dee9] BUG: using smp_processor

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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2010 16:00:02 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>, Jan Kara <jack@....cz>
Subject: Re: [git head f4b87dee9] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in
	preemptible (VFS-related)

  Hi,

> On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:36:59 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > [    6.906133] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> > [    7.014359] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: mount/1501
> > [    7.020570] caller is dqstats_inc+0x19/0x2c
> > [    7.026658] Pid: 1501, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.34-tst #25
> > [    7.032792] Call Trace:
> > [    7.038859]  [<ffffffff8117c12b>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xcb/0xdc
> > [    7.045025]  [<ffffffff8111dfb5>] dqstats_inc+0x19/0x2c
> > [    7.051201]  [<ffffffff81120fac>] vfs_quota_sync+0x144/0x210
> > [    7.057349]  [<ffffffff810eccfa>] ? __shrink_dcache_sb+0x284/0x293
> > [    7.063574]  [<ffffffff810fc48d>] __sync_filesystem+0x3a/0x7e
> > [    7.069730]  [<ffffffff810fc552>] sync_filesystem+0x36/0x4c
> > [    7.075867]  [<ffffffff810deef0>] do_remount_sb+0x65/0x13c
> > [    7.081960]  [<ffffffff810f4359>] do_mount+0x251/0x78a
> > [    7.088039]  [<ffffffff810f2c3e>] ? copy_mount_options+0xda/0x146
> > [    7.094086]  [<ffffffff810f4911>] sys_mount+0x7f/0xb8
> > [    7.100085]  [<ffffffff81002aeb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [    7.124208] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: mount/1501
> > [    7.130307] caller is dqstats_inc+0x19/0x2c
> > [    7.136386] Pid: 1501, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.34-tst #25
> > [    7.142512] Call Trace:
> > [    7.148629]  [<ffffffff8117c12b>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xcb/0xdc
> > [    7.154846]  [<ffffffff8111dfb5>] dqstats_inc+0x19/0x2c
> > [    7.161019]  [<ffffffff81120fac>] vfs_quota_sync+0x144/0x210
> > [    7.167171]  [<ffffffff810fc48d>] __sync_filesystem+0x3a/0x7e
> > [    7.173364]  [<ffffffff810fc563>] sync_filesystem+0x47/0x4c
> > [    7.179522]  [<ffffffff810deef0>] do_remount_sb+0x65/0x13c
> > [    7.185616]  [<ffffffff810f4359>] do_mount+0x251/0x78a
> > [    7.191663]  [<ffffffff810f2c3e>] ? copy_mount_options+0xda/0x146
> > [    7.197626]  [<ffffffff810f4911>] sys_mount+0x7f/0xb8
> > [    7.203493]  [<ffffffff81002aeb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [   11.643596] udev: starting version 153
> > 
> > This is after reverting commit a7cf4145b (anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the
> > anon_inode) that the system is not really useable with.
> 
> Caused by "quota: Make quota stat accounting lockless".
> 
> Guys, the code this patch adds utterly duplicates the interface
> provided by include/linux/percpu_counter.h, only the quota code does it
> wrongly and badly.  Please, can we use the nice library code?
  I was thinking about this when merging the code and I thought that I'll save
some memory (~200 bytes) because stats are fine with 32-bit counters (instead of
64-bit ones) and I'm interested only in rough counts, not exact ones. Since the
code Dmitry added was quite simple, I thought the duplication won't be so bad.
  But the code is probably more subtle than I thought so those 200 bytes aren't
worth it. So let's convert it to generic per-cpu counters. Dmitry, will you do it?
  Hmm, I'm also wondering why I didn't see the warning Rafael was hitting in my
test runs... Ah, my kernel config has CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE! I guess using
CONFIG_PREEMPT is likely to give a better test coverage, right?

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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