linux-kernel - Re: 3.9.2: xfstests triggered panic

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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 19:53:00 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 3.9.2: xfstests triggered panic

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 04:39:58AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote:
> Reproduced on almost all s390x guests by running xfstests.
> 
> 14634.396658¨ XFS (dm-1): Mounting Filesystem 
> 14634.525522¨ XFS (dm-1): Ending clean mount 
> 14640.413007¨  <000000000017c6d4>¨ idle_balance+0x1a0/0x340 
> 14640.413010¨  <000000000063303e>¨ __schedule+0xa22/0xaf0 
> 14640.428279¨  <0000000000630da6>¨ schedule_timeout+0x186/0x2c0 
> 14640.428289¨  <00000000001cf864>¨ rcu_gp_kthread+0x1bc/0x298 
> 14640.428300¨  <0000000000158c5a>¨ kthread+0xe6/0xec 
> 14640.428304¨  <0000000000634de6>¨ kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc 
> 14640.428308¨  <0000000000634de0>¨ kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc 
> 14640.428311¨ Last Breaking-Event-Address: 
> 14640.428314¨  <000000000016bd76>¨ walk_tg_tree_from+0x3a/0xf4 
> 14640.428319¨  list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (0000000000000918 
> ), but was           (null). (next=          (null)). 

Where's XFS in this? walk_tg_tree_from() is part of the scheduler
code. This kind of implies a stack corruption....

> Sometimes, this pops up,
> [16907.275002] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1960 
> 
> or this,
> 15316.154171¨ XFS (dm-1): Mounting Filesystem 
> 15316.255796¨ XFS (dm-1): Ending clean mount 
> 15320.364246¨            00000000006367a2: e310b0080004        lg      %r1,8(%r 
> 11) 
> 15320.364249¨            00000000006367a8: 41101010            la      %r1,16(% 
> r1) 
> 15320.364251¨            00000000006367ac: e33010000004        lg      %r3,0(%r 
> 1) 
> 15320.364252¨ Call Trace: 
> 15320.364252¨ Last Breaking-Event-Address: 
> 15320.364253¨  � <0000000000000000>¨ Kernel stack overflow. 
> 15320.364308¨ CPU: 0 Tainted: GF       W    3.9.2 #1 
> 15320.364309¨ Process rhts-test-runne (pid: 625, task: 000000003dccc890, ksp: 0 

.... and there you go - a stack overflow. Your kernel stack size is
too small.

I'd suggest that you need 16k stacks on s390 - IIRC every function
call has 128 byte stack frame, and there are call chains 70-80
functions deep in the storage stack...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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