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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:41:38 +0530
From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: [BUG] next-20081216 - WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:333
smp_call_function_mask
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> [2008-12-26 19:17:34]:
>
> * Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > > how about the patch below, does that work too? (after removing
> > > Yinghai's patch)
> >
> > Hi Ingo,
> >
> > Kernel crashes with the same trace, after the applying the patch.
>
> okay, thanks - does the below cleaner variant of Yinghai's patch solve the
> problem too?
>
> Ingo
>
> -------------------->
> From 9c93fc72ec95dc97d65b840978f9d605f4e5823a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:05:47 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
>
> Impact: fix panic on null pointer with sparseirq
>
> Some GCC versions seem to inline the weak global function,
> when that function is empty.
>
> Work it around, by putting a barrier into the function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> ---
> init/main.c | 9 +++++++++
> kernel/irq/handle.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index c1f999a..841d2b2 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -531,20 +531,29 @@ static void __init boot_cpu_init(void)
> cpu_set(cpu, cpu_possible_map);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * The barriers are needed to keep a GCC bug from optimizing
> + * away these weak functions:
> + */
> +
> void __init __weak smp_setup_processor_id(void)
> {
> + barrier();
> }
>
> void __init __weak thread_info_cache_init(void)
> {
> + barrier();
> }
>
> void __init __weak arch_early_irq_init(void)
> {
> + barrier();
> }
>
> void __init __weak early_irq_init(void)
> {
> + barrier();
> arch_early_irq_init();
> }
>
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c
> index 06b05a4..a6d16a4 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/handle.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c
> @@ -86,8 +86,9 @@ void init_kstat_irqs(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu, int nr)
> desc->kstat_irqs = (unsigned int *)ptr;
> }
>
> -void __attribute__((weak)) arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
> +void __weak arch_init_chip_data(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
> {
> + barrier();
> }
>
> static void init_one_irq_desc(int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu)
> --
Hi Ingo,
Kernel still crashes after applying the patch,
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
ACPI: Core revision 20080926
Setting APIC routing to flat
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff8021f8fd>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x73
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file:
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-rc8-autotest-tip #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8021f8fd>] [<ffffffff8021f8fd>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x73
RSP: 0018:ffff88003f9d7e40 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffffffff806e7300 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000018 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 000000000000000f R11: ffffffff8021e74a R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff806f1480(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88003f9d6000, task ffff88003f9d8000)
Stack:
0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffffffff806e7300 0000000000000001
0000000000000001 ffffffff8071819e 0000000000000286 0000000000000286
0000000000010000 0000000000000206 0000000000000002 0000000000000002
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8071819e>] setup_IO_APIC+0x12f/0x720
[<ffffffff80524bf1>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xe
[<ffffffff8022221b>] get_apic_id+0x0/0x9
[<ffffffff80715087>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x256/0x2f1
[<ffffffff807077c8>] kernel_init+0x50/0x1eb
[<ffffffff8020ceda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff80707778>] kernel_init+0x0/0x1eb
[<ffffffff8020ced0>] child_rip+0x0/0x20
Code: 48 c7 c7 9a 29 5f 80 31 c0 e8 83 85 01 00 5b 4c 89 e0 41 5c 41 5d c3 41 55 49 89 fd 89 f7 41 54 41 89 cc 55 89 d5 53 48 83 ec 08 <49> 8b 5d 00 48 85 db 75 35 e8 88 ff ff ff 48 85 c0 75 18 5b 5b
RIP [<ffffffff8021f8fd>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x73
RSP <ffff88003f9d7e40>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G D 2.6.28-rc8-autotest-tip #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80237321>] panic+0x86/0x144
[<ffffffff80236bc8>] mm_release+0x3f/0xd3
[<ffffffff80238b4f>] exit_fs+0x35/0x46
[<ffffffff80239fd7>] do_exit+0x75/0x78f
[<ffffffff805257ae>] oops_end+0xa8/0xad
[<ffffffff80526ffd>] do_page_fault+0x756/0x80f
[<ffffffff80524dbf>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff8021e74a>] native_apic_mem_write+0x0/0x9
[<ffffffff8021f8fd>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x73
[<ffffffff8071819e>] setup_IO_APIC+0x12f/0x720
[<ffffffff80524bf1>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xe
[<ffffffff8022221b>] get_apic_id+0x0/0x9
[<ffffffff80715087>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x256/0x2f1
[<ffffffff807077c8>] kernel_init+0x50/0x1eb
[<ffffffff8020ceda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff80707778>] kernel_init+0x0/0x1eb
[<ffffffff8020ced0>] child_rip+0x0/0x20
--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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