linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bug

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Message-ID: <d82e647a0908231710h35feb992q8ee503187faac02d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:10:19 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bug

2009/8/23 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 10:48 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> 2009/7/8 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>:
>> > kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
>> >
>> > From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>> >
>> > Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
>> > function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch
>> > re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the
>> > allow_resched parameter.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> [...]
>> This still exits in 2.6.31-rc7 if kmemcheck is enabled, and isn't  the patch
>> merged into mainline?
>
> Is this kmemcheck or kmemleak (two different things with similar names)?

Sorry, this is kmemleak.

>
>> [    0.006569] ACPI: Core revision 20090521
>> [    0.011476] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x10000002
>> [    0.011558] no locks held by swapper/0.
>> [    0.011561] Modules linked in:
>> [    0.011566] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31-rc7 #141
>> [    0.011569] Call Trace:
>> [    0.011577]  [<ffffffff81070bb7>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x22/0x24
>> [    0.011584]  [<ffffffff8103d4ba>] __schedule_bug+0x77/0x7c
>> [    0.011590]  [<ffffffff812da32f>] schedule+0xd6/0xa3f
>> [    0.011596]  [<ffffffff810e4b9b>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xe2/0x158
>> [    0.011600]  [<ffffffff810717e2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12d/0x158
>> [    0.011604]  [<ffffffff8107181a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
>> [    0.011609]  [<ffffffff8103e3f0>] __cond_resched+0x29/0x47
>> [    0.011614]  [<ffffffff812dae24>] _cond_resched+0x29/0x34
>> [    0.011620]  [<ffffffff811da90a>] acpi_ps_complete_op+0x246/0x25c
>> [    0.011625]  [<ffffffff811db024>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x704/0x860
>> [    0.011630]  [<ffffffff811da200>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x9f/0x2de
>> [    0.011635]  [<ffffffff811d9181>] acpi_ns_one_complete_parse+0x101/0x11c
>> [    0.011640]  [<ffffffff811d91bd>] acpi_ns_parse_table+0x21/0x3c
>> [    0.011645]  [<ffffffff811d67e3>] acpi_ns_load_table+0x4f/0x94
>> [    0.011650]  [<ffffffff811dd14a>] acpi_load_tables+0x72/0x133
>> [    0.011656]  [<ffffffff8153c592>] acpi_early_init+0x60/0xf5
>> [    0.011661]  [<ffffffff81519cb0>] start_kernel+0x38b/0x3a0
>> [    0.011666]  [<ffffffff81519140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
>> [    0.011670]  [<ffffffff815192a3>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae
>> [    0.011675]  [<ffffffff8151939e>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf7/0x106
>
> I looked at the traces and there are no kmemleak calls. It's either that
> kmemleak is disabled or the error is not on a kmemleak path. It looks
> more like an ACPI bug to me.
>
> Can you try only with slab debugging enabled (without kmemleak or
> kmemcheck)? IIRC someone else reported a similar issue a few weeks ago.

If I only disabled kmemleak, the kernel does not print the warning, so I suppose
it is related with kmemleak.

Attachment is the .config,  hope it is usable to help to fix the warning.

Thanks.

-- 
Lei Ming

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