linux-kernel - Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:793

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Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:29:41 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:793

On 01/11/2011 11:49 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/10/2011 09:31 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:52:05AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> >
>> >  On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> >
>> > >  Every time I run qemu with KVM enabled I get this in dmesg:
>> > >
>> > >  [  182.878328] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid 
>> context at mm/slub.c:793
>> > >  [  182.878339] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4992, 
>> name: qemu
>> > >  [  182.878355] Pid: 4992, comm: qemu Not tainted 2.6.37+ #31
>> > >  [  182.878361] Call Trace:
>> > >  [  182.878381]  [<c104e317>] ? __might_sleep+0xd0/0xd7
>> > >  [  182.878394]  [<c10ec337>] ? 
>> slab_pre_alloc_hook.clone.39+0x23/0x27
>> > >  [  182.878404]  [<c10ece27>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x22/0xc8
>> > >  [  182.878414]  [<c1030221>] ? init_fpu+0x44/0x7b
>> >
>> >  fpu_alloc() does call kmem_cache_alloc with GFP_KERNEL although we 
>> are in
>> >  an atomic context.
>>
>> Something like this?
>>
>> ---
>>  From 7c6fbfed72e7d22cbdf7393f9711d521e0fbb4a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kirill A. Shutemov<kirill@...temov.name>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:24:23 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] x86, fpu_alloc(): call kmem_cache_alloc() with 
>> GFP_ATOMIC
>>
>> [  182.878328] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at 
>> mm/slub.c:793
>> [  182.878339] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4992, name: qemu
>> [  182.878355] Pid: 4992, comm: qemu Not tainted 2.6.37+ #31
>> [  182.878361] Call Trace:
>> [  182.878381]  [<c104e317>] ? __might_sleep+0xd0/0xd7
>> [  182.878394]  [<c10ec337>] ? slab_pre_alloc_hook.clone.39+0x23/0x27
>> [  182.878404]  [<c10ece27>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x22/0xc8
>> [  182.878414]  [<c1030221>] ? init_fpu+0x44/0x7b
>> [  182.878426]  [<c130cc29>] ? do_device_not_available+0x0/0x1b
>> [  182.878435]  [<c1030221>] ? init_fpu+0x44/0x7b
>> [  182.878444]  [<c102a588>] ? math_state_restore+0x24/0x47
>> [  182.878453]  [<c130cc39>] ? do_device_not_available+0x10/0x1b
>> [  182.878462]  [<c130c4ab>] ? error_code+0x67/0x6c
>> [  182.878475]  [<c1012340>] ? kvm_load_guest_fpu+0xa1/0xaa
>> [  182.878484]  [<c1013364>] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x798/0xbe8
>> [  182.878496]  [<c1004523>] ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x105/0x46e
>> [  182.878508]  [<c107dce0>] ? get_futex_key+0x73/0x132
>> [  182.878517]  [<c107e352>] ? futex_wake+0xb6/0xc0
>> [  182.878527]  [<c107f8d6>] ? do_futex+0x87/0x669
>> [  182.878535]  [<c100441e>] ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x0/0x46e
>> [  182.878545]  [<c1101ebf>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4a0/0x4d1
>> [  182.878554]  [<c130e348>] ? do_page_fault+0x2eb/0x316
>> [  182.878564]  [<c1101f36>] ? sys_ioctl+0x46/0x68
>> [  182.878572]  [<c130bdc0>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>> [  182.878585]  [<c1300000>] ? aer_probe+0x1da/0x274
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov<kirill@...temov.name>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
>> index ef32890..8b896dd 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/i387.h
>> @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static inline int fpu_alloc(struct fpu *fpu)
>>   {
>>       if (fpu_allocated(fpu))
>>           return 0;
>> -    fpu->state = kmem_cache_alloc(task_xstate_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +    fpu->state = kmem_cache_alloc(task_xstate_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>       if (!fpu->state)
>>           return -ENOMEM;
>>       WARN_ON((unsigned long)fpu->state&  15);
>
> If this fails, a task will be killed.  I'll patch kvm to ensure that 
> the fpu is initialized.
>

Please try out the attached patch.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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