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Message-ID: <515ADC96.7090908@synopsys.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:56:46 +0530
From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
CC: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: n_tty_write() going into schedule but NOT coming out
On 04/01/2013 08:40 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 19:27 +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any thoughts: I observe the same issue even with CONFIG_PREEMPT and
>> CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT
>>
>> -Vineet
>>
>> On 03/30/2013 06:05 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been stress testing ARC Linux 3.8 (same happens for 3.9-rc3 as well). The
>>> setup has 3 telnet sessions, each running find . -name "*" in a loop.
>>> The platform is a FPGA @ 80 MHz, running a single core ARC700 so kernel .config
>>> has !SMP and PREEMPT_NONE.
>>>
>>> After ~10 mins of run, I see that one of the telnet session gets stuck (and later
>>> the 2nd one as well), while system is still alive, 3rd telnet is running find merrily.
>>>
>>> [ARCLinux]$ ps
>>> ....
>>> 7 root 0:00 inetd
>>> 62 root 0:00 -/bin/sh
>>> 64 root 1:34 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
>>> 65 root 0:00 /bin/sh
>>> 75 root 1:47 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
>>> 76 root 0:00 /bin/sh
>>> 79 root 0:53 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
>>> 80 root 0:00 /bin/sh
>>> 281 root 0:00 find / -name * <--- stuck
>>> 358 root 0:03 find / -name * <--- stuck
>>> 377 root 0:00 find / -name *
>>> 378 root 0:00 ps
>>>
>>> Hung find task is sitting in the schedule() call in n_tty_write()
>>>
>>> [ARCLinux]$ cat /proc/281/stack
>>> [<8065945e>] n_tty_write+0x23a/0x424
>>> [<80655cd4>] tty_write+0x1ac/0x2d4
>>> [<805976ba>] vfs_write+0x92/0x110
>>> [<80597816>] sys_write+0x4e/0x88
>>> [<8050e780>] ret_from_system_call+0x0/0x4
> Likely the writer is stuck because the receive buffer is full and the
> reader is hung. What are the respective shells and telnetd doing?
I've added a couple of printk's around that schedule() call and in one pathetic
case all 3 find tasks never return:
S 0 58 47 1768 488 0:0 00:00 00:03:50 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
S 0 59 58 1768 520 pts0 00:00 00:00:01 /bin/sh
S 0 61 47 1768 488 0:0 00:00 00:03:45 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
S 0 62 61 1768 528 pts1 00:00 00:00:01 /bin/sh
S 0 65 47 1768 488 0:0 00:00 00:03:23 telnetd -i -l /bin/sh
S 0 66 65 1776 528 pts2 00:00 00:00:01 /bin/sh
S 0 833 66 1840 488 pts2 00:58 00:00:01 find / -name * <--
S 0 871 62 1832 480 pts1 01:01 00:00:00 find / -name * <--
S 0 881 59 1840 488 pts0 01:01 00:00:02 find / -name * <--
---> 833 8e21c580
<--- 833 8e21c580
---> 833 8e21c580
---> 871 8e21c840
<--- 871 8e21c840
---> 871 8e21c840
---> 881 8e21c2c0
<--- 881 8e21c2c0
---> 881 8e21c2c0
I don't undersand how the receive buffer full/empty is coming into play - that
schedule() call is not a wait queue or something, it's an unconditional yield,
expecting sched to unconditionally return at some point - unless ofcourse - that
itself relies on some buffer r/w ISR semantics triggering an ISR, which makes the
task runnable again causing schdule() to return.
-Vineet
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