linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 18 [ call-trace: drm | x86 | smp

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Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:19:08 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	DRI <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 18 [ call-trace: drm | x86 | smp | rcu
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Changes since 20130417:
>>>>
>>>> New Trees:      rpmsg (actually added yesterday)
>>>>                 ppc-temp (replacing powerpc for this week)
>>>>
>>>> The ceph tree gained a conflict against Linus' tree.
>>>>
>>>> The net-next tree gained a conflict against the infiniband tree.
>>>>
>>>> The usb tree gained a build failure so I used the version from
>>>> next-20130417.
>>>>
>>>> I added two merge fix patches after the gen-gpio tree.
>>>>
>>>> The ppc-temp tree gained a conflict against the metag tree.
>>>>
>>>> The akpm tree lost a patch that turned up elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure what the root-cause for this call-trace is (see screenshot).
>>>
>>> This is reproducible when running my kernel build-script (4 parallel-make-jobs).
>>>
>>> Any hints welcome!
>>
>> The panic handlers in our modeset code are pretty decent fubar - they
>> take mutexes all over the place. So I think the backtrace you see
>> there is actually a secondary effect. I've looked into fixing this up,
>> but the issue is that drivers themselves have tons of state protected
>> with mutexes, which all potentially affects the panic handler. So I've
>> given up on that for now ...
>
> Thanks for taking care.
>
> On suspicion [1] I have reverted [2]... NOPE.
>
> - Sedat -
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136631921208895&w=2
> [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=5a90d1a95356de7a32acb2e5309ac579a891af8f
>

Hmmm, the issue seems to be gone with today's Linux-Next (next-20130419).
My kernel-build is still running with no call-trace...

- Sedat -

>> -Daniel
>> --
>> Daniel Vetter
>> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
>> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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