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Message-Id: <20081126152043.c92ae839.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:20:43 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, astarikovskiy@...e.de,
sitsofe@...oo.com, len.brown@...el.com, rjw@...k.pl,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28-rc6] ACPICA: don't cond_resched() when
irqs_disabled()
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:55:08 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> [add CC to <stable@...nel.org>, since this bug was introduced in the
> 2.6.27-rcX time frame, and should help 2.6.28 and 2.6.27.x alike]
>
> The ACPI routines could be called from run_workqueue() with irqs disabled.
> So we should test irqs_disabled() before calling cond_resched().
>
It is a bug for anyone to call run_workqueue() with local interrupts
disabled.
> ---
> PS. the BUG that this patch fixed:
It isn't immediately obvious from this trace why/how run_workqueue() is
being called that way. Are you able to work out what's going on here
please?
> [30490.707880] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/sched.c:5570
> [30490.707910] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000007bc14a88
> [30490.707918] IP: [<ffffffff81505317>] kprobe_exceptions_notify+0x27/0x6d0
Do I see kprobes oopsing in the middle of our attempt to do a WARN_ON()?
If so, is this a separate kprobes bug?
Is the acpi problem reproducible with kprobes disabled, so we can fix
one thing at a time?
> [30490.707934] PGD 7355c067 PUD 7352f067 PMD 0
> [30490.707941] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [30490.707946] last sysfs file: /sys/class/power_supply/C23B/charge_full
> [30490.707952] Dumping ftrace buffer:
> [30490.707957] (ftrace buffer empty)
> [30490.707960] CPU 1
> [30490.707964] Modules linked in: ipv6 pata_pcmcia ide_cs usbhid hci_usb snd_hda_intel pcmcia snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc yenta_socket ohci1394 rsrc_nonstatic snd_hwdep pcspkr pcmcia_core iwlagn ieee1394 snd iwlcore rfkill led_class ehci_hcd soundcore uhci_hcd ide_pci_generic wmi
> [30490.708007] Pid: 191, comm: kacpid Not tainted 2.6.28-rc5 #3
> [30490.708011] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81505317>] [<ffffffff81505317>] kprobe_exceptions_notify+0x27/0x6d0
> [30490.708021] RSP: 0018:ffff88007bc19728 EFLAGS: 00010006
> [30490.708026] RAX: ffffffff8174f190 RBX: 000000007bc14a00 RCX: ffff88007bc197f8
> [30490.708030] RDX: ffff88007bc197f8 RSI: 000000000000000a RDI: ffffffff8174f190
> [30490.708035] RBP: ffff88007bc19758 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> [30490.708039] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: ffffffff816916fe R12: 00000000ffffffff
> [30490.708043] R13: ffffffff8174fe20 R14: ffff88007bc197f8 R15: 000000000000000a
> [30490.708049] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007c15d3d8(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [30490.708053] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [30490.708058] CR2: 000000007bc14a88 CR3: 0000000073513000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [30490.708062] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [30490.708067] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [30490.708072] Process kacpid (pid: 191, threadinfo ffff88007bc18000, task ffff88007bc14a00)
> [30490.708075] Stack:
> [30490.708078] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff ffffffff8174fe20
> [30490.708085] ffff88007bc197f8 000000000000000a ffff88007bc19798 ffffffff815069df
> [30490.708093] ffffffff8174f580 ffffffff8174cef8 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff
> [30490.708102] Call Trace:
> [30490.708106] [<ffffffff815069df>] notifier_call_chain+0x3f/0x80
> [30490.708113] [<ffffffff81506a89>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xa0
> [30490.708121] [<ffffffff81506a20>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0xa0
> [30490.708129] [<ffffffff8107925d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708138] [<ffffffff81502b08>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x68/0x70
> [30490.708146] [<ffffffff810791b9>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x29/0xc0
> [30490.708153] [<ffffffff8107925d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708160] [<ffffffff81502b08>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x68/0x70
> [30490.708167] [<ffffffff812decd4>] ? e1000_xmit_frame+0xb34/0xf10
> [30490.708177] [<ffffffff810e8c39>] ? cache_alloc_debugcheck_after+0x159/0x250
> [30490.708185] [<ffffffff8107925d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708192] [<ffffffff813c66eb>] ? netpoll_send_skb+0x19b/0x210
> [30490.708201] [<ffffffff81204534>] ? delay_tsc+0x44/0x90
> [30490.708210] [<ffffffff812045f4>] ? __const_udelay+0x44/0x50
> [30490.708218] [<ffffffff812adc1c>] ? wait_for_xmitr+0x5c/0xd0
> [30490.708227] [<ffffffff812adcb0>] ? serial8250_console_putchar+0x20/0x40
> [30490.708234] [<ffffffff812adc90>] ? serial8250_console_putchar+0x0/0x40
> [30490.708241] [<ffffffff812a97d4>] ? uart_console_write+0x34/0x70
> [30490.708249] [<ffffffff812ae1b2>] ? serial8250_console_write+0xc2/0x1a0
> [30490.708257] [<ffffffff810518de>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x6e/0x90
> [30490.708265] [<ffffffff81051945>] ? _call_console_drivers+0x45/0x70
> [30490.708272] [<ffffffff81051e3b>] ? release_console_sem+0x18b/0x250
> [30490.708279] [<ffffffff8105253d>] ? vprintk+0x34d/0x460
> [30490.708285] [<ffffffff8107925d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708292] [<ffffffff8107ae14>] ? debug_check_no_locks_freed+0xe4/0x170
> [30490.708300] [<ffffffff814fef71>] ? printk+0x67/0x6e
> [30490.708306] [<ffffffff810eaa38>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1a8/0x210
> [30490.708313] [<ffffffff8107925d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708319] [<ffffffff810eaa38>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1a8/0x210
> [30490.708326] [<ffffffff8123b2d9>] ? acpi_os_release_object+0x9/0xd
> [30490.708334] [<ffffffff81048afb>] ? __might_sleep+0x9b/0x140
> [30490.708343] [<ffffffff8104db75>] ? __cond_resched+0x15/0x60
> [30490.708349] [<ffffffff814ffd15>] ? _cond_resched+0x35/0x50
> [30490.708355] [<ffffffff8124e15d>] ? acpi_ps_complete_op+0x235/0x24b
> [30490.708365] [<ffffffff8124e872>] ? acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x6ff/0x859
> [30490.708372] [<ffffffff8124da6f>] ? acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x7c/0x2bb
> [30490.708380] [<ffffffff8124efe9>] ? acpi_ps_execute_method+0x144/0x213
> [30490.708386] [<ffffffff8124b3ee>] ? acpi_ns_evaluate+0x152/0x230
> [30490.708394] [<ffffffff8123b595>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x0/0x39
> [30490.708401] [<ffffffff81242ab4>] ? acpi_ev_asynch_execute_gpe_method+0xc7/0x11f
> [30490.708408] [<ffffffff81064e8a>] ? run_workqueue+0xaa/0x240
> [30490.708417] [<ffffffff8123b5c1>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x2c/0x39
> [30490.708424] [<ffffffff8123b595>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x0/0x39
> [30490.708431] [<ffffffff81064edc>] ? run_workqueue+0xfc/0x240
> [30490.708438] [<ffffffff81064e8a>] ? run_workqueue+0xaa/0x240
> [30490.708445] [<ffffffff8107ad2d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
> [30490.708452] [<ffffffff810650cf>] ? worker_thread+0xaf/0x130
> [30490.708459] [<ffffffff81069890>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
> [30490.708467] [<ffffffff81065020>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x130
> [30490.708474] [<ffffffff81069469>] ? kthread+0x49/0x90
> [30490.708480] [<ffffffff81013bb9>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x11
> [30490.708487] [<ffffffff81012dc3>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> [30490.708493] [<ffffffff81069420>] ? kthread+0x0/0x90
> [30490.708499] [<ffffffff81013baf>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
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