linux-kernel - Re: x86: runtime waring in pcibios_fwaddrmap

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:36:33 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To:	Myron Stowe <mstowe@...hat.com>
cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: x86: runtime waring in pcibios_fwaddrmap_lookup

> So, somehow, your system hit the assertion (WARN_ON) in
> pcibios_fwaddrmap_lookup().  From the dmesg log you provided I can see
> why pcibios_save_fw_addr() was called - there is a resource collision
> with the video device's GART - but what I don't understand is how the
> assertion is being triggered.
> 
> There are only two callers of pcibios_fwaddrmap_lookup()
> (see ./arch/x86/pci/i386.c:: pcibios_save_fw_addr(), and
> pcibios_retrieve_fw_addr()) and both of those are acquiring the lock
> before making the call - so triggering the assertion just doesn't seem
> possible but obviously it is getting triggered.
> 
> I don't have any ideas currently but do have some questions that
> hopefully will start to enlighten us.
> 
>         Does your system encounter this consistently upon every boot or
>         is it hit intermittently?

Every time.

>         Do you know of any kernel versions that do not encounter it?

Checked my logs, no kernel up to 3.3.0 included gave it, next tested 
kernel was 3.4.0-rc2 and that had the warning and every kernel since has 
had it.

>         Are you running a para-virtualized kernel?

No.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@...ee)      http://www.cs.ut.ee/~mroos/
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