linux-kernel - Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

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Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 2014 23:14:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>
cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Dâniel Fraga <fragabr@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:48:08 -0500
> Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > [ 1611.749570]  [<ffffffff81007948>] do_nmi+0xb8/0xf0
> > [ 1611.750438]  [<ffffffff8179dd2a>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
> > [ 1611.751312]  [<ffffffff810a12c8>] ? preempt_count_add+0x18/0xb0
> > [ 1611.752177]  [<ffffffff810a12c8>] ? preempt_count_add+0x18/0xb0
> > [ 1611.753025]  [<ffffffff810a12c8>] ? preempt_count_add+0x18/0xb0
> > [ 1611.753861]  <<EOE>>  [<ffffffff810fee07>] is_module_text_address+0x17/0x50
> > [ 1611.754734]  [<ffffffff81092ab8>] __kernel_text_address+0x58/0x80
> > [ 1611.755575]  [<ffffffff81006b5f>] print_context_stack+0x8f/0x100
> > [ 1611.756410]  [<ffffffff81005540>] dump_trace+0x140/0x370
> > [ 1611.757242]  [<ffffffff811e797f>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
> > [ 1611.758072]  [<ffffffff811e797f>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
> > [ 1611.758895]  [<ffffffff810137cb>] save_stack_trace+0x2b/0x50
> > [ 1611.759720]  [<ffffffff811c29a0>] set_track+0x70/0x140
> > [ 1611.760541]  [<ffffffff8178d993>] alloc_debug_processing+0x92/0x118
> > [ 1611.761366]  [<ffffffff8178e5d6>] __slab_alloc+0x45f/0x56f
> > [ 1611.762195]  [<ffffffff811e797f>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
> > [ 1611.763024]  [<ffffffff8178dd57>] ? __slab_free+0x114/0x309
> > [ 1611.763853]  [<ffffffff8137187e>] ? debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x17e/0x270
> > [ 1611.764712]  [<ffffffff811e797f>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
> > [ 1611.765539]  [<ffffffff811c6b26>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1f6/0x270
> 
> So, every time there is a slab allocation the entire stack trace gets
> saved as human readable text. And for each line in the trace,

Wrong. It gets saved as address. No conversion to text at all.

> is_module_text_address() can be called, which has huge overhead
> walking the entire list of loaded modules. No wonder there are
> timeouts...

You would have to have a gazillion of modules to make that overhead
big enough to trigger a multi seconds watchdog.

Thanks,

	tglx




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