linux-kernel - Re: [3.6.6] panic on reboot / khungtaskd blocked? (WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123 native_smp_send

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Message-ID: <50A302C9.2060800@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:32:41 +0800
From:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paweł Sikora <pawel.sikora@...k.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, arekm@...-linux.org,
	baggins@...-linux.org
Subject: Re: [3.6.6] panic on reboot / khungtaskd blocked? (WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123
 native_smp_send_reschedule)

On 11/13/2012 05:40 PM, Paweł Sikora wrote:
> On Monday 12 of November 2012 13:33:39 Paweł Sikora wrote:
>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 11:22:47 Paweł Sikora wrote:
>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 15:40:31 Michael Wang wrote:
>>>> On 11/12/2012 03:16 PM, Paweł Sikora wrote:
>>>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 11:04:12 Michael Wang wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/09/2012 09:48 PM, Paweł Sikora wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> during playing with new ups i've caught an nice oops on reboot:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=10253
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> probably the upstream is also affected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, Paweł
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you using a clean 3.6.6 without any modify?
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, pure 3.6.6 form git tree with modular config.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like some threads has set itself to be UNINTERRUPTIBLE with out
>>>>>> any design on switch itself back later(or the time is too long), are you
>>>>>> accidentally using some bad designed module?
>>>>>
>>>>> hmm, hard to say. mostly all modules are loaded automatically by kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Could you please provide the whole dmesg in text? your picture lost the
>>>> print info of the hung task.
>>>
>>> i've grabbed the console via rs232 but there's no more info (see attached txt).
>>
>> hmm, i have one observation.
>>
>> during rc.shutdown there're messages on console like this: Cannot stat file /proc/$pid/fd/1: Connection timed out
>> afaics this file descriptor points to vnc log file on a remote machine, e.g.:
>>
>> # ps aux|grep xfwm4
>> eda       1748  0.0  0.0 320220 11224 ?        S    13:08   0:00 xfwm4 
>>
>> # readlink -m /proc/1748/fd/1
>> /remote/dragon/ahome/eda/.vnc/odra:11.log
>>
>> # mount|grep ahome
>> dragon:/home/users/ on /remote/dragon/ahome type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.2.121,mountvers=3,mountport=45251,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.2.121)
>>
>>
>> so, probably during `killall5 -TERM/-KILL` on shutdown stage something sometimes go wrong
>> and these processes (xfce4/vncserver) survive the signal and hang on the nfs i/o.
>>
> 
> ok, now i have full sysrq+w backtraces from shutdown process. i hope i'll help you.

This can only tell us what's the task in UNINTERRUPTABLE state, but with
out time info, we can't find out which one is the hung task...

Regards,
Michael Wang


> 
> BR,
> Paweł.
> 

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