linux-kernel - Re: [tip:sched/locking] sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq

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Date:	Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:01:32 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arne Jansen <lists@...-jansens.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	efault@....de, npiggin@...nel.dk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	frank.rowand@...sony.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/locking] sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock()


* Arne Jansen <lists@...-jansens.de> wrote:

> On 05.06.2011 11:55, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Arne Jansen<lists@...-jansens.de>  wrote:
> >
> >>>( Arne, please also double check on a working bootup that the NMI
> >>>   watchdog is actually ticking, by checking the NMI counts in
> >>>   /proc/interrupts go up slowly but surely on all CPUs. )
> >>
> >>It does, but _very_ slowly. Some CPUs do not count up for tens of
> >>minutes if the machine is idle. If I generate some load like 'make
> >>tags', the counters go up quite quickly.
> >>After 4 minutes and one 'make cscope' it looks like this:
> >>NMI:          8         13         43          5          2
> >>3        22          1   Non-maskable interrupts
> >>
> >>But I never see a single tick on console or in dmesg, even when I
> >>replace the early_printk with a printk.
> >
> >hm, that might be because the NMI watchdog uses halted cycles to
> >tick.
> >
> >That's not a problem (the kernel cannot lock up while there are no
> >cycles ticking) but nevertheless could you work this around please
> >by starting 8 infinite shell loops:
> >
> >    for ((i=0; i<8; i++)); do while : ; do : ; done&  done
> >
> >?
> >
> >This will saturate all cores and makes sure the NMI watchdog is
> >ticking everywhere.
> >
> >Hopefully this wont make the bug go away :-)
> >
> 
> OK, now we get going. I get the ticks, the bug is still there, and
> all CPUs still tick after the lockup. I also added an early_printk
> inside the lockup-if, and it reports hard lockups. At first for only
> one or 2 CPUs, and after some time all CPUs are locked up.

Very good!

If you add a dump_stack() do you get a stacktrace, or do the NMI 
watchdog ticks stop?

If the ticks stop this suggests a lockup within the printk code. If 
you get a stack dump then we'll have good debug data.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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