linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] updates for tip/tracing/ftrace

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:07:46 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [GIT PULL] updates for tip/tracing/ftrace

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:25:23PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > >  	VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_reader task started");
> > > > > > > -	set_user_nice(current, 19);
> > > > > > > +	set_user_nice(current, -1);
> > > > > > >  	if (irqreader && cur_ops->irqcapable)
> > > > > > >  		setup_timer_on_stack(&t, rcu_torture_timer, 0);
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > i dont have a reproducer right now. Can you trigger it with latest 
> > > > > > -tip, which has this commit included:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 04cb9ac: rcu: rcu_barrier VS cpu_hotplug: Ensure callbacks in dead cpu are migrated to o
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 	Ingo
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I tested three times the same things but with 04cb9ac and... it didn't triggered
> > > > > anymore :-)
> > > > 
> > > > So lets hope that was the culprit.
> > > > 
> > > > Great work Frederic!
> > > 
> > > No new lockups of this nature in overnight -tip testing. It's 
> > > still a bit too early to tell for sure but it's promising ;-)
> > 
> > just got a lockup again :-/ It hangs here:
> > 
> > calling  init_mmio_trace+0x0/0x12 @ 1
> > initcall init_mmio_trace+0x0/0x12 returned 0 after 0 usecs
> > calling  init_graph_trace+0x0/0x12 @ 1
> > Testing tracer function_graph: 
> > 
> > and this time i got good stackdumps as well - see below. Config 
> > attached.
> 
> > CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y
> 
> All the crashes you reported only happen with classic RCU.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Did anything change recently that could cause this lockup?

Arjan van de Ven is seeing a problem where a single synchronize_rcu()
during bootup is taking a full second, which is currently
thought to be due to some drivers spinning in the kernel (Arjan
is working on a bootgraph that will hopefully pinpoint the problem:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/21/7).  If the drivers were also instrumented
with ftrace, they might (or might not)slow down even further, depending
on exactly why they are spinning.

							Thanx, Paul
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