linux-kernel - Re: rb tree hrtimer lockup bug (found by perf

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: rb tree hrtimer lockup bug (found by perf_fuzzer)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Ok. So we know now what we are looking for.
> 
> [    1.579996] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ÿ[    1.607279] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
> [    1.615032] kobject: 'ttyS1' (ffff88011772ac10): kobject_release, parent           (null) (delayed 250)
> [    1.624534] kobject: '(null)' (ffff8801177400f0): kobject_release, parent           (null) (delayed 500)
> [    1.654213] 0000:00:16.3: ttyS1 at I/O 0xf0e0 (irq = 19, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
> 
> [    3.294047] Invalid timer base: tmr ffff880117740150 tmr->base           (null) base ffff880118898000
> 
> 1634110us : obj: ffff880117740130 initialized kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x0/0x90
> 
> So that happens in the context of the 8250 serial driver.
> 
> ...
> 
> Below is a patch which gives us the call path of the unnamed object
> which causes the crash.

I've attached the boot log with that patch applied.

Vince
Download attachment "hrtimer_boot6.log.bz2" of type "APPLICATION/octet-stream" (55185 bytes)