linux-kernel - Re: rcu stall.

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Message-ID: <20110420083616.GA1124@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:36:16 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: rcu stall.


* Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:

> Machine was under heavy load (300 or so running processes
> calling random system calls). The rcu stall detector kicked in,
> spewed this, and then the machine completely locked up.

Without having looked at it in detail, isnt this a lockup somewhere in the 
wireless code:

>   [<ffffffff8114f842>] ? simple_release_fs+0x22/0x57
>   [<ffffffff81082e4f>] ? arch_local_irq_restore+0x6/0xd
>   [<ffffffff81084df8>] lock_acquired+0x20f/0x21e
>   [<ffffffff814be9cc>] _raw_spin_lock+0x62/0x6a
>   [<ffffffff8114f842>] ? simple_release_fs+0x22/0x57
>   [<ffffffff814bf215>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x28/0x2c
>   [<ffffffff8114f842>] simple_release_fs+0x22/0x57
>   [<ffffffff811f53e9>] debugfs_remove_recursive+0x11f/0x16b
>   [<ffffffffa037adf3>] ieee80211_debugfs_key_remove+0x1f/0x2e [mac80211]
>   [<ffffffffa0373e7a>] __ieee80211_key_destroy+0x61/0x6d [mac80211]
>   [<ffffffffa0374250>] ieee80211_key_link+0x12c/0x165 [mac80211]
>   [<ffffffffa036b90e>] ieee80211_add_key+0xfb/0x133 [mac80211]
>   [<ffffffffa0277ff4>] nl80211_new_key+0xe5/0x106 [cfg80211]
>   [<ffffffffa026d2c5>] ? cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex+0x72/0x7a [cfg80211]
>   [<ffffffff81422244>] genl_rcv_msg+0x1dc/0x207
>   [<ffffffff81422068>] ? genl_rcv+0x2d/0x2d
>   [<ffffffff81421c69>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x43/0x8f
>   [<ffffffff81422061>] genl_rcv+0x26/0x2d
>   [<ffffffff8142176a>] netlink_unicast+0xec/0x156
>   [<ffffffff81421a53>] netlink_sendmsg+0x27f/0x2c0
>   [<ffffffff813ed78c>] __sock_sendmsg+0x69/0x75
>   [<ffffffff813ed905>] sock_sendmsg+0xa1/0xb6
>   [<ffffffff81086c30>] ? lock_release+0x181/0x18e
>   [<ffffffff81100de0>] ? might_fault+0xa5/0xac
>   [<ffffffff81100d97>] ? might_fault+0x5c/0xac
>   [<ffffffff813ec8e4>] ? copy_from_user+0x2f/0x31
>   [<ffffffff813f707a>] ? copy_from_user+0x2f/0x31
>   [<ffffffff813f7370>] ? verify_iovec+0x52/0xa6
>   [<ffffffff813eece3>] sys_sendmsg+0x23a/0x2b8
>   [<ffffffff81086d29>] ? lock_acquire+0xec/0xfb
>   [<ffffffff81086c30>] ? lock_release+0x181/0x18e
>   [<ffffffff8114b7d7>] ? mntput+0x26/0x28
>   [<ffffffff811343bc>] ? fput+0x1e6/0x1f5
>   [<ffffffff8113ba95>] ? path_put+0x1f/0x23
>   [<ffffffff810a9f23>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x11c/0x148
>   [<ffffffff81255e4e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
>   [<ffffffff814c5d82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

RCU stall detector is simply the first thing that noticed the hang. Enabling 
the regular lockup detector would probably have resulted in a similar looking 
hang.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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