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Message-ID: <20130624164918.GA8572@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:49:18 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: frequent softlockups with 3.10rc6.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:37:08PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/24, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:52:29AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > > > > check_list_nodes corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff88023b8a1a08), but was 00ffff88023b8a1a. (next=ffff880243288001).
> > > >
> > > > Can't find "check_list_nodes" in lib/list_debug.c or elsewhere...
> > > >
> > > > > [<ffffffff816e467d>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
> > > > > [<ffffffff8104a0c1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
> > > > > [<ffffffff8104a12c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
> > > > > [<ffffffff81112c61>] rb_head_page_deactivate.isra.39+0x61/0x80
> > > >
> > > > How? rb_list_head_clear() just modifies list->next directly.
> > > >
> > > > > hopefully despite that it'll actually function as intended.
> > > >
> > > > Yes ;)
> > >
> > > I'm curious to what happened.
> >
> > Ah, this is the first victim of my new 'check sanity of nodes during list walks' patch.
> > It's doing the same prev->next next->prev checking as list_add and friends.
> > I'm looking at getting it into shape for a 3.12 merge after some other preparatory patches
> > go into 3.11
>
> So you used the patched kernel when you hit the lockups ?
>
> What else was changed?
I hit the lockups on the vanilla tree too.
Dave
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