linux-kernel - Re: Panic and page fault in loop during handling NMI backtrace handler

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Message-ID: <20131015125914.GC29884@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:59:15 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar (mingo@...nel.org)" <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org' (linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org)" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Wang, Xiaoming" <xiaoming.wang@...el.com>,
	"Li, Zhuangzhi" <zhuangzhi.li@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Panic and page fault in loop during handling NMI backtrace
 handler

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:48:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:37:17PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:53PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:01:04AM +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> > > > We meet one issue that during trigger all CPU backtrace, but during in the NMI handler arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler,
> > > > It hit the PAGE fault, then PAGE fault is in loop, at last the thread stack overflow, and system panic.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone can give some help? Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Looks like we re-enter the fault several times. On x86-32, NMIs can
> > > fault if they dereference vmalloc'ed area. I wonder if the module thing
> > > we lookup in the NMI is stored on some vmalloc'ed area.
> > 
> > IIRC modules are indeed allocated using vmalloc. See module_alloc()
> > using vmalloc_exec()
> 
> This might then be a module that uses call_rcu(), but which does not have
> the needed rcu_barrier() in the module-exit function.

I rather believe it's due to the lazy paging of vmalloc area in x86-32. We had issues
like that in the past. For example that's the reason why we do an ad-hoc per-cpu
allocation on callchain buffers in perf rather than using alloc_percpu() which might
use vmalloc.
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