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Message-ID: <526E7C6B.6070603@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:02:03 +0100
From: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG 3.12.rc4] Oops: unable to handle kernel paging request during
shutdown
On 25.10.2013 11:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Adding more people, so quoting the whole email for them.
>
> We definitely have some module unload issues. Guys, try the following
> a few times to unload modules:
>
> lsmod | grep ' 0 '| cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs sudo rmmod
>
> (a few times because unloading one module will then potentially make
I do use a quite monolithic kernel with only a few modules, and one of the machines is
pretty stripped down:
I was unable to trigger any unusual kernel reaction within 10000 rmmod / modprobe cycles.
lsmod
=====
Module Size Used by
ip6t_REJECT 12489 3
nf_conntrack_ipv6 13453 3
nf_defrag_ipv6 49936 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_raw 12565 1
ipt_REJECT 12485 3
xt_tcpudp 12531 6
xt_pkttype 12456 3
xt_LOG 17205 12
xt_limit 12570 12
iptable_raw 12561 1
xt_CT 12820 4
iptable_filter 12666 1
ip6table_mangle 12579 0
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 12585 0
nf_conntrack_broadcast 12541 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
nf_conntrack_ipv4 13655 3
nf_defrag_ipv4 12649 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
ip_tables 17713 2 iptable_raw,iptable_filter
xt_conntrack 12664 6
nf_conntrack 67920 6 nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_CT,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_broadcast,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_conntrack
ip6table_filter 12670 1
ip6_tables 17740 3 ip6table_raw,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
x_tables 21937 15 ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_raw,ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,xt_pkttype,xt_LOG,xt_limit,iptable_raw,xt_CT,iptable_filter,ip6table_mangle,ip_tables,xt_conntrack,ip6table_filter,ip6_tables
snd_rme96 24387 0
snd_hda_intel 34073 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 41826 1
snd_hda_codec 129150 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_pcm 73096 3 snd_rme96,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 24441 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd 58328 6 snd_rme96,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 14599 1 snd
binfmt_misc 13111 1
ipv6 272895 24 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6,ip6table_mangle
> other modules unloadable).
>
> On my machine, I can trigger this, for example:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3217 at fs/sysfs/file.c:498 sysfs_attr_ns+0x91/0xa0()
> sysfs: kobject (null) without dirent
> Modules linked in: fuse nf_conntrack_broadcast ipt_MASQUERADE ip6t_REJECT xt_$
> CPU: 0 PID: 3217 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 3.12.0-rc6-00284-ge6036c0b8896 #19
> Hardware name: Sony Corporation SVP11213CXB/VAIO, BIOS R0270V7 05/17/2013
> 0000000000000009 ffff8800aca35df8 ffffffff8160aab5 ffff8800aca35e40
> ffff8800aca35e30 ffffffff810514b8 ffffffffa013f080 ffff8801194a6040
> 0000000000000800 0000000000000000 0000000000c5b3e0 ffff8800aca35e90
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8160aab5>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
> [<ffffffff810514b8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa0
> [<ffffffff81051527>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x50
> [<ffffffff810b5960>] ? module_refcount+0xb0/0xb0
> [<ffffffff811e5c61>] sysfs_attr_ns+0x91/0xa0
> [<ffffffff811e5d2a>] sysfs_remove_file+0x1a/0x50
> [<ffffffff814c88a3>] cpufreq_sysfs_remove_file+0x13/0x30
> [<ffffffffa013d350>] acpi_cpufreq_exit+0x2e/0xcde [acpi_cpufreq]
> [<ffffffff810b7d1d>] SyS_delete_module+0x15d/0x2c0
> [<ffffffff81002929>] ? do_notify_resume+0x59/0x90
> [<ffffffff81618f62>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> ---[ end trace f887112caaa5c4ab ]---
>
> so at least we have a cpufreq/sysfs interaction bug. There may be others.
>
> This particular cpufreq issue may be triggered by the fact that
> acpi-cpufreq isn't actually in use (pstate is). Or it might be some
> generic cpufreq/sysfs bug. Rafael, Greg, ideas?
>
> I don't see that this particular one would be the one that causes the
> timer issues, but it's an example of the fact that module unload tends
> to be special and not necessarily well tested.
>
> Linus
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> Hmm.. I just got a run_timer_softirq oops on my own laptop, slightly
>> different. That was not during shutdown, although there was a "yum
>> upgrade" finishing when that happened, so it's quite likely that there
>> was a service shutdown (and then restart).
>>
>> I think it's related. But my oops has almost no information: the IP
>> that was jumped to was bogus, and the callchain is just CPU idle
>> followed by the softirq -> run_timers_softirq handling, so there's no
>> real way to see *what* triggered it.
>>
>> The bad rip was ffffffffa051e250, which is not a valid code address.
>> It *might* be a module address, though. So this might be triggered by
>> rmmod on some module that doesn't remove all its timers...
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Linus
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