linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] oops in cpufreq driver with AMD Kaveri CPU

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Date:	Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:26:29 +0300
From:	Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] oops in cpufreq driver with AMD Kaveri CPU

Filled up detailed bugreport on bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81701

On Thursday 07 August 2014 23:53:17 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> Disabling cpufreq code in kernel config works around this issue.
> 
> Is this bug related to sleeping in atomic context, which is caused by
> improper GFP_KERNEL usage instead of GFP_ATOMIC? Should I test tat patch,
> or there will be another fix?
> 
> On Tuesday 05 August 2014 00:39:11 Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Occasionally I get my machine hung completely. Fortunately, I've got and
> > saved oops listing using netconsole before hang, and here it is [1].
> > 
> > Here is little piece of oops from the link above:
> > 
> > ===
> > [15051.270461] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
> > 00000000ff5ae8e4 [15051.271583] IP: [<ffffffff8109ae6e>]
> > srcu_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x20 …
> > [15051.956205] Call Trace:
> > [15051.980641]  [<ffffffff81606085>] ?
> > __cpufreq_notify_transition+0x95/0x1e0 [15052.005640] 
> > [<ffffffff816081ee>]
> > cpufreq_notify_transition+0x3e/0x70 [15052.030240]  [<ffffffff816083d8>]
> > cpufreq_freq_transition_begin+0xe8/0x130 [15052.054522]
> > [<ffffffff813b8940>] ? ucs2_strncmp+0x70/0x70
> > [15052.078208]  [<ffffffff816089bf>] __target_index+0xbf/0x1a0
> > [15052.101348]  [<ffffffff81608b9c>] __cpufreq_driver_target+0xfc/0x160
> > [15052.124250]  [<ffffffff8160b0d4>] od_check_cpu+0xa4/0xb0
> > [15052.146789]  [<ffffffff8160c9ec>] dbs_check_cpu+0x16c/0x1c0
> > [15052.168935]  [<ffffffff8160b4dd>] od_dbs_timer+0x11d/0x180
> > [15052.190607]  [<ffffffff8108e6ff>] process_one_work+0x17f/0x4c0
> > [15052.211825]  [<ffffffff8108f46b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x3f0
> > [15052.232490]  [<ffffffff8108f350>] ? create_and_start_worker+0x80/0x80
> > [15052.253127]  [<ffffffff81096479>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
> > [15052.273292]  [<ffffffff810963b0>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0
> > [15052.293487]  [<ffffffff81793efc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> > [15052.313544]  [<ffffffff810963b0>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0
> > …
> > ===
> > 
> > Also here is my lspci [2] and cpuinfo [3] as well.
> > 
> > Vanilla 3.15.8 and 3.16.0 are affected as well as latest Ubuntu 3.13
> > kernel.
> > 
> > No visible reason to trigger the bug. After hang machine doesn't respond
> > via network, there's no disk IO, and also it doesn't respond to pressing
> > power button in order to perform soft off.
> > 
> > [1] https://gist.github.com/085af9da81197faf6637
> > [2] https://gist.github.com/318ebda5576b099590b8
> > [3] https://gist.github.com/9c1307463c7ad6835b2d
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Oleksandr post-factum Natalenko, MSc
pf-kernel community
https://natalenko.name/
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