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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:37:33 +0530
From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Containers (V8): Generic Process Containers
Hi Paul,
In [patch 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to
containers, you have forcefully enabled interrupt in
container_init_subsys() with spin_unlock_irq() which breaks on PPC64.
> +static void container_init_subsys(struct container_subsys *ss) {
> + int retval;
> + struct list_head *l;
> + printk(KERN_ERR "Initializing container subsys %s\n",
> ss->name);
> +
> + /* Create the top container state for this subsystem */
> + ss->root = &rootnode;
> + retval = ss->create(ss, dummytop);
> + BUG_ON(retval);
> + init_container_css(ss, dummytop);
> +
> + /* Update all container groups to contain a subsys
> + * pointer to this state - since the subsystem is
> + * newly registered, all tasks and hence all container
> + * groups are in the subsystem's top container. */
> + spin_lock_irq(&container_group_lock);
> + l = &init_container_group.list;
> + do {
> + struct container_group *cg =
> + list_entry(l, struct container_group, list);
> + cg->subsys[ss->subsys_id] =
> dummytop->subsys[ss->subsys_id];
> + l = l->next;
> + } while (l != &init_container_group.list);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&container_group_lock);
Interrupt gets enabled here and on PPC64, the kernel takes a pending
decrementer and crashes because it is too early to handle them.
Use of irqsave and restore routines would fix the problem.
I have included the fix along with minor Kconfig correction.
Also your 3/7 patch did not showup on LKML.
--Vaidy
> +
> + need_forkexit_callback |= ss->fork || ss->exit;
View attachment "container-irq-fix.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1710 bytes)
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