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Date:	Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:32:47 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <mlin@...pku.edu.cn>
To:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Piszcz <ap@...arrain.com>
Subject: Re: 3.0.1: pagevec_lookup+0x1d/0x30, SLAB issues? [again w/DEBUG_VM &
 SLAB_DEBUG enabled]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> With 3.0.1 now and all options compiled in and threadirqs removed, I get
>>> the same error this user is seeing:
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1424997
>>>
>>
>> Hello Lin,
>>
>> I missed your mail (sender IP is in a CIDR blacklist), disabled &
>> whitelisted for now:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131567477126674&w=2
>>
>> I've enabled this and I will post a new e-mail / output if it happens
>> again with debug enabled for SLAB.
>>
>> Response to your e-mail:
>>
>>> Could you tell how to reproduce this?
>>
>> Running a lot of processes at the same time (memory/cpu+i/o)
>>
>>> And would you please turn on more debug options to capture more info?
>>
>> Yup, done now; however, I am using SLAB, not SLUB; so I've enabled:
>>
>> -> [*] Debug slab memory allocations -> [*]   Memory leak debugging -> [*]
>> Debug VM
>>
>>> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
>>> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any other options you think would be
>> useful
>> to enable or if this should be good, if it recurs again-- as noted above
>> I will post an update.
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> With the debug options enabled as mentioned above:
>
> [27336.007038] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 22s! [kswapd1:1045]
> [27336.007043] CPU 9 [27336.007047] Pid: 1045, comm: kswapd1 Not tainted
> 3.0.1 #7 Supermicro X8DTH-i/6/iF/6F/X8DTH
> [27336.007053] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8107a981>]  [<ffffffff8107a981>]
> find_get_pages+0x61/0x150
> [27336.007062] RSP: 0018:ffff880626783b50  EFLAGS: 00000246
> [27336.007065] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880626783ba0 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [27336.007067] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000e RDI:
> ffffea000f617890
> [27336.007070] RBP: ffff880626783ba0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09:
> 000000000000000a
> [27336.007072] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: ffff8803badfde18 R12:
> ffffffff816481ce
> [27336.007075] R13: ffffffff810821cd R14: ffff880626783ad0 R15:
> ffff88063fffbe00
> [27336.007078] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880c3fc60000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [27336.007081] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [27336.007084] CR2: 00007fbaef0fc000 CR3: 0000000001a43000 CR4:
> 00000000000006e0
> [27336.007086] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
> 0000000000000000
> [27336.007089] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
> 0000000000000400
> [27336.007092] Process kswapd1 (pid: 1045, threadinfo ffff880626782000, task
> ffff880626d2a840)
> [27336.007094] Stack:
> [27336.007096]  ffff880c3fc6d520 0000000000000005 ffff880070743320
> ffff880070743328
> [27336.007103]  ffff880626783ba0 ffff880626783be0 000000000000041c
> ffffffffffffffff
> [27336.007108]  ffff880070743320 ffffea000f617820 ffff880626783bc0
> ffffffff8108597d
> [27336.007114] Call Trace:
> [27336.007121]  [<ffffffff8108597d>] pagevec_lookup+0x1d/0x30
> [27336.007125]  [<ffffffff8108607f>] invalidate_mapping_pages+0x5f/0x170
> [27336.007132]  [<ffffffff810d37b5>] shrink_icache_memory+0x2d5/0x320
> [27336.007139]  [<ffffffff81086f5d>] shrink_slab+0x11d/0x190
> [27336.007144]  [<ffffffff81089d6a>] balance_pgdat+0x4fa/0x6a0
> [27336.007148]  [<ffffffff81089fc3>] kswapd+0xb3/0x250
> [27336.007153]  [<ffffffff8104fea0>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
> [27336.007157]  [<ffffffff81089f10>] ? balance_pgdat+0x6a0/0x6a0
> [27336.007160]  [<ffffffff8104f457>] kthread+0x87/0x90
> [27336.007167]  [<ffffffff81648814>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [27336.007171]  [<ffffffff8104f3d0>] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
> [27336.007175]  [<ffffffff81648810>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
> [27336.007177] Code: 89 ea e8 33 95 22 00 85 c0 89 c6 0f 84 01 01 00 00 4d
> 89 e7 31 c9 31 d2 66 90 49 8b 07 48 8b 38 48 85 ff 74 5b 40 f6 c7 01 75 7a
> [27336.007198]  63 83 44 e0 ff ff a9 00 ff ff 07 0f 85 8d 00 00 00 44 8b 47
> [27336.007209] Call Trace:
> [27336.007213]  [<ffffffff8108597d>] pagevec_lookup+0x1d/0x30
> [27336.007217]  [<ffffffff8108607f>] invalidate_mapping_pages+0x5f/0x170
> [27336.007222]  [<ffffffff810d37b5>] shrink_icache_memory+0x2d5/0x320
> [27336.007226]  [<ffffffff81086f5d>] shrink_slab+0x11d/0x190
> [27336.007229]  [<ffffffff81089d6a>] balance_pgdat+0x4fa/0x6a0
> [27336.007233]  [<ffffffff81089fc3>] kswapd+0xb3/0x250
> [27336.007237]  [<ffffffff8104fea0>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
> [27336.007241]  [<ffffffff81089f10>] ? balance_pgdat+0x6a0/0x6a0
> [27336.007244]  [<ffffffff8104f457>] kthread+0x87/0x90
> [27336.007248]  [<ffffffff81648814>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [27336.007252]  [<ffffffff8104f3d0>] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
> [27336.007256]  [<ffffffff81648810>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb

No more info got.

Could you try to make a test case which can trigger this bug reliably?
You may also try some benchmarks, for example, fio, ffsb, etc.

Lin Ming

>
> Justin.
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