linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.30-rc1] RCU detected CPU 1 stall

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:32:29 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hugh@...itas.com, jmorris@...ei.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.30-rc1] RCU detected CPU 1 stall

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:22:03AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm...  This indicates that CPU 1 was spinning in the kernel for
> > a long time.  At 250 HZ, 32,565 jiffies is 130 seconds, or just over
> > two -minutes-.  Ouch!!!
> > 
> > The interrupt happened on the stalled CPU, so we know that interrupts
> > were enabled.  Because we have CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y, there is no
> > preemption, so preemption need not be disabled.  This could be due
> > to lock contention, or even a simple infinite loop.
> > 
> > The timer interrupt (apic_timer_interrupt) occurred in either
> > __bprm_mm_init(), __get_user_4(), count(), or do_execve().  There
> > have been some recent changes around check_unsafe_exec() -- any
> > possibility that these introduced excessive lock contention or
> > an infinite loop?  Ditto for the recent security fixes?
> 
> Oh, joy... the loop in there is this:
>         for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
>                 if (t->fs == p->fs)
>                         n_fs++;
>         }
> I find it hard to believe that it can take two minutes, though.

Tetsuo, how many tasks did you have on this machine?

Though I too find it hard to believe that there were enough to chew up
two minutes.  Maybe the list got corrupted so that it has a loop?

							Thanx, Paul
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