linux-kernel - Re: soft lock failure on FC8

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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:43:05 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dragon kumar <disaster2008@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: soft lock failure on FC8

On Mon, Feb 04 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:52:16 +0530 "Dragon kumar" <disaster2008@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > I am not able to boot 2.6.24-mm1 kernel on x86_64 machine with FC8. I
> > am attaching config file and call trace also with this mail.
> > 
> > 
> > [  921.273592] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [scsi_scan_0:473]
> > [  921.273601] CPU 0:
> > [  921.273601] Modules linked in: scsi_wait_scan tg3 shpchp
> > pci_hotplug aacraid sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd
> > ssb ehci_hcd usbcore
> > [  921.273601] Pid: 473, comm: scsi_scan_0 Not tainted 2.6.24-mm1-autokern1 #1
> > [  921.273601] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8031fa1b>]  [<ffffffff8031fa1b>]
> > radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xe1/0x139
> > [  921.273601] RSP: 0018:ffff81007d99bda8  EFLAGS: 00000293
> > [  921.273601] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff81007d99bde0 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > [  921.273601] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff81007d8f2690 RDI: 000000000000000c
> > [  921.273601] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff81007d8dce0c R09: 0000000000000001
> > [  921.273601] R10: ffff81007d90caf0 R11: 000000000000000d R12: ffff81000106ac00
> > [  921.273601] R13: ffff8100808ed000 R14: ffff81007d99a000 R15: ffffffff8077eef0
> > [  921.273601] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8057e000(0000)
> > knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [  921.273601] CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > [  921.273601] CR2: 00000000006167d0 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [  921.273601] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [  921.273601] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [  921.273601]
> > [  921.273601] Call Trace:
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff8031870d>] ? call_for_each_cic+0x72/0x104
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff80318e84>] ? cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x0/0x4e
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff803187b7>] ? cfq_exit_io_context+0x18/0x1a
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff80311844>] ? exit_io_context+0x101/0x111
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff80239e53>] ? do_exit+0x794/0x7c1
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff8020d03f>] ? child_rip+0x11/0x12
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff8020c703>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff80249c5d>] ? kthreadd+0x17d/0x1a2
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff80249da9>] ? kthread+0x0/0x77
> > [  921.273601]  [<ffffffff8020d02e>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12
> > [  921.273601]
> > 
> 
> At a guess I'd say that call_for_each_cic() is failing to advance across
> the radix-tree and got stuck.

I'd say that's a good guess, I don't see how else it could get stuck
looping forever.

> 
> Could you please apply this debug patch and retest?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> diff -puN block/cfq-iosched.c~a block/cfq-iosched.c
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c~a
> +++ a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -1159,6 +1159,7 @@ call_for_each_cic(struct io_context *ioc
>  
>  	do {
>  		int i;
> +		unsigned long next_index;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Perhaps there's a better way - this just gang lookups from
> @@ -1171,8 +1172,13 @@ call_for_each_cic(struct io_context *ioc
>  			break;
>  
>  		called += nr;
> -		index = 1 + (unsigned long) cics[nr - 1]->key;
> -
> +		next_index = 1 + (unsigned long) cics[nr - 1]->key;
> +		if (next_index <= index) {
> +			printk("next_index=%lu, index=%lu\n",
> +				next_index, index);
> +			dump_stack();
> +		}
> +		index = next_index;
>  		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
>  			func(ioc, cics[i]);
>  	} while (nr == CIC_GANG_NR);
> _
> 

-- 
Jens Axboe

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