linux-kernel - Re: Problems with 2.6.17-rt8

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Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:18:00 -0700
From:	Bill Huey (hui) <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Robert Crocombe <rcrocomb@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with 2.6.17-rt8

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:54:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 13:22 -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
> > free_pages_bulk is definitely being called inside of an atomic.
> > I force this stack trace when the in_atomic() test is true at the
> > beginning of the function.
> > 
> > 
> > [   29.362863] Call Trace:
> > [   29.367107]        <ffffffff802a82ac>{free_pages_bulk+86}
> > [   29.373122]        <ffffffff80261726>{_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+44}
> > [   29.380233]        <ffffffff802a8778>{__free_pages_ok+428}
> > [   29.386336]        <ffffffff8024f101>{free_hot_page+25}
> > [   29.392165]        <ffffffff8022e298>{__free_pages+41}
> > [   29.397898]        <ffffffff806b604d>{__free_pages_bootmem+174}
> > [   29.404457]        <ffffffff806b5266>{free_all_bootmem_core+253}
> > [   29.411112]        <ffffffff806b5340>{free_all_bootmem_node+9}
> > [   29.417574]        <ffffffff806b254e>{numa_free_all_bootmem+61}
> > [   29.424122]        <ffffffff8046e96e>{_etext+0}
> > [   29.429224]        <ffffffff806b1392>{mem_init+128}
> > [   29.434691]        <ffffffff806a17ab>{start_kernel+377}
> > [   29.440520]        <ffffffff806a129b>{_sinittext+667}
> > [   29.446669] ---------------------------
> > [   29.450963] | preempt count: 00000001 ]
> > [   29.455257] | 1-level deep critical section nesting:
> > [   29.460732] ----------------------------------------
> > [   29.466212] .. [<ffffffff806a169a>] .... start_kernel+0x68/0x221
> > [   29.472815] .....[<ffffffff806a129b>] ..   ( <= _sinittext+0x29b/0x2a2)
> > [   29.480056]
> 
> Perhaps you could put in that in_atomic check at the start of each of
> these functions and point to where it is a problem.  Perhaps a spinlock
> is taken that was real and not a mutex.

Yeah, that's my thought as well. I'm going to do what you suggest now.

bill

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