linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27-rc4: lots of 'in_atomic():1, irqs

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:33:24 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	jurriaan <thunder7@...all.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4: lots of 'in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0' with software-raid1

On Wed, Aug 27 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [Adding CCs]
> 
> On Wednesday, 27 of August 2008, jurriaan wrote:
> > After returning from my holidays, I proceeded to test 2.6.27-rc4. 2.6.26
> > works fine, but 2.6.27-rc4 gives me lots of:
> > 
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: Pid: 1185, comm: md2_raid1 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4 #2
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: 
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: Call Trace:
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802303fb>] __might_sleep+0xdb/0x100
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802734a9>] mempool_alloc+0x89/0x140
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802c8deb>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x2b/0xb0
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802c8ed0>] bio_alloc+0x10/0x20
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8061ecda>] md_super_write+0x3a/0xe0
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80623e0e>] write_page+0x14e/0x310
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff803a30f1>] ? rb_insert_color+0x101/0x130
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8022de7f>] ? update_curr+0x3f/0x60
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8039e3e9>] ? __next_cpu+0x19/0x30
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80231ecc>] ? find_busiest_group+0x1dc/0x960
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff806240ab>] bitmap_update_sb+0xdb/0x110
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8061ef65>] md_update_sb+0x1e5/0x370
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80620dc5>] md_check_recovery+0x355/0x640
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80607665>] raid1d+0x35/0x10a0
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802360db>] ? finish_task_switch+0x3b/0xc0
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8070ec96>] ? thread_return+0xa3/0x63d
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80710e52>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80247406>] ? lock_timer_base+0x36/0x70
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff807110c2>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8024749a>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5a/0x70
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff802474ca>] ? del_timer_sync+0x1a/0x30
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80710e52>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff807110c2>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8061e084>] md_thread+0x54/0x140
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80253390>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8061e030>] ? md_thread+0x0/0x140
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80252fc9>] kthread+0x49/0x80
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8020ca09>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff80252f80>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel:  [<ffffffff8020c9ff>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
> > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: 
> > 
> > I was able to reboot into 2.6.26 without further trouble. I wasn't able
> > to find this reported earlier on lkml.

Hmm, this just looks like a GFP_NOIO alloc inside rcu_read_lock(), I
don't see anything wrong with that?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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