linux-kernel - Re: [regression] boot failure on alpha, bisected

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Date:	Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:41:47 +0000
From:	Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@...bcu.de>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [regression] boot failure on alpha, bisected

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:16:27PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/07, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 07:13:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > On 10/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hmm. I know nothing about arch/alpha and I can't understand its entry.S.
> > > > But _it seems_ to me that do_notify_resume() is called with irqs disabled.
> > > > If this is true, then imho arch/alpha should be fixed.
> > > >
> > > > Before this commit task_work_run() enabled irqs, but this was the "side
> > > > effect" of spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq, we should not rely on this.
> > >
> > > Could you please test the debugging patch below?
> >
> > Of course. With that patch applied the kernel (ac3d0da) boots again. The trace line
> > is printed about once a second, with values '2' and '4'.
> 
> Thanks a lot Thorsten!
> 
> So I'll probably send the patch which enables interrupts in
> task_work_run(). I guess this needs "if (irqs_disabled())"
> for lockdep.
> 
> The question is, should I add the warning to remind that this
> arch needs a fix?

If you do, then please warn only once, otherwise there will be a lot of
warnings :-)
 
Thorsten
 

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