linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 "irqpoll" seems to be broken

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Message-Id: <20070426082405.67a0fdd2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:24:05 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	vgoyal@...ibm.com
Cc:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 "irqpoll" seems to be broken

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:06:20 +0530 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am booting 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 on x86_64 box with "irqpoll" command line option
> and it panics. I can reproduce this problem easily on this box. Please
> let me know if serial console output is required.
> 
> 2.6.21-rc7 works just fine. So problem seems to be in some -mm patch.
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000009 RIP:
>  [<ffffffff8025bc5e>] note_interrupt+0x5d/0x21b
> PGD 1032c5067 PUD 1032c4067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 #1
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8025bc5e>]  [<ffffffff8025bc5e>] note_interrupt+0x5d/0x21b
> RSP: 0018:ffff810100cbff08  EFLAGS: 00010002
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff807e2d40 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff807e2d40 RDI: 0000000000000004
> RBP: ffffffff807e2d40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffff810104192f40
> R13: ffffffff807e2d84 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff810100854140(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000009 CR3: 00000001032c6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff810100cb8000, task ffff810100cb7500)
> Stack:  0000000000000004 0000000400000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff807e2d40
>  0000000000000004 ffff810104192f40 ffffffff807e2d84 0000000000000000
>  0000000000000000 ffffffff8025c7c5 ffff810100cb9e98 ffff810100cb9e98
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8025c7c5>] handle_edge_irq+0xf9/0x127
>  [<ffffffff8020c2f9>] do_IRQ+0xf1/0x160
>  [<ffffffff8020a141>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
>  [<ffffffff80208fd9>] mwait_idle+0x42/0x45
>  [<ffffffff80208f2f>] cpu_idle+0xbd/0xe0
> 
> 
> Code: f6 40 09 10 75 09 45 85 ff 0f 85 3d 01 00 00 49 c7 c4 c0 2b
> RIP  [<ffffffff8025bc5e>] note_interrupt+0x5d/0x21b
>  RSP <ffff810100cbff08>
> CR2: 0000000000000009
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> 

hm.  I'd be suspecting
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc7/2.6.21-rc7-mm2/broken-out/add-irqf_irqpoll-flag-common-code.patch
and
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc7/2.6.21-rc7-mm2/broken-out/add-irqf_irqpoll-flag-on-x86_64.patch

But because x86_64 doesn't implement IRQ_PER_CPU it's hard to see how we
got into note_interrupt as a result of that patch.

Adding the `noirqdebug' boot option would be interesting, perhaps.
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