linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc3: BUG: scheduling while atomic: udevd/917/0x10000100

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Message-ID: <20090211083217.GC21105@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:32:17 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc3: BUG: scheduling while atomic: udevd/917/0x10000100


* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just got this:
> 
> [  774.115554] BUG: scheduling while atomic: udevd/917/0x10000100
> [  774.117293] Modules linked in:
> [  774.117293] CPU 1:
> [  774.117293] Modules linked in:
> [  774.117293] Pid: 917, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.29-rc3 #223
> [  774.117293] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b0eff>]  [<ffffffff811b0eff>]
> find_next_bit+0x17/0xa1
> [  774.117293] RSP: 0018:ffff88003e40bcd8  EFLAGS: 00000246
> [  774.117293] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e40bcd8 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
> [  774.117293] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffffffff8181cd80
> [  774.117293] RBP: ffffffff8100cf6e R08: 0000000000000040 R09: 0000000000000000
> [  774.117293] R10: ffff88003b090000 R11: 000000000000000a R12: ffff88003e5165a0
> [  774.117293] R13: 000000000003b08f R14: 0000000100000001 R15: 0000000000000000
> [  774.117293] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003f156f80(0063)
> knlGS:00000000f7f6d700
> [  774.117293] CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
> [  774.117293] CR2: 0000000008ff28bc CR3: 000000003e407000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
> [  774.117293] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [  774.117293] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [  774.117293] Call Trace:
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff81108a90>] ? show_stat+0x43e/0x4d6
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff810d6122>] ? seq_read+0x130/0x31a
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff81101f40>] ? proc_reg_read+0x80/0x9a
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff810bf40b>] ? vfs_read+0xad/0x107
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff810bf533>] ? sys_read+0x4c/0x73
> [  774.117293]  [<ffffffff8102d398>] ? sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x27
> [  774.291296] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> $ addr2line -e vmlinux -i ffffffff811b0eff ffffffff81108a90
> lib/find_next_bit.c:26
> fs/proc/stat.c:95

hm, the softirq count:

> [  774.115554] BUG: scheduling while atomic: udevd/917/0x10000100

means we leaked 1 softirq count. (SOFTIRQ_OFFSET == 0x100)

the 2^31 bit is PREEMPT_ACTIVE - that's harmless here. (shows that you
are running a CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernel)

The softirq leak can come from three sources:

 - the core softirq code forgot to elevate it. Highly unlikely.

 - there's an unmatched *_lock_bh() critical section.

 - some sort of corruption. (unlikely, the softirq count is way too specific here)

OTOH show_stat() is fairly simple and has not been changed recently.
Mysterious. More folks Cc:-ed.

There's a fourth possibility:

 - Given that it's udevd that does it - maybe we leaked a softirq preempt
   count in some rare sysfs file, and it did not get discovered until the
   next innocent piece of kernel code preempted?

But i thought lockdep would already warn if we exited a syscall with locks
held or with a preempt count elevated - Peter?

	Ingo
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