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Message-ID: <569F5E29.3090107@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:15:05 +0100
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org >> Linux Kernel Mailing List"
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: regression 4.4: deadlock in with cgroup percpu_rwsem
On 01/20/2016 08:07 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 02:38:45PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>> No, its not a task_struct. Activating some more debug information did indeed
>>> revealed several other issues (overwritten redzones etc). Unfortunately I
>>> only saw the broken things after the facts, so I do not know which code did that.
>>> When I disabled the cgroup controllers in libvirt I was no longer able to trigger
>>> the bugs. Still trying to narrow things down.
>>
>> Hmmm... that's worrying. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC sometimes can catch
>> these sort of bugs red-handed. Might worth trying.
>
> Christian, just to avoid that you get surprised like I did:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC requires in the meantime an additional kernel
> parameter "debug_pagealloc=on" to be active.
>
> That change was introduced a year ago, so it was probably only me who
> wasn't aware of that change :)
I had CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, but not the command line. :-(
With that enabled I now have:
[ 561.043895] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
[ 561.043902] failing address: 000000fa14b30000 TEID: 000000fa14b30803
[ 561.043905] Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
[ 561.043911] AS:0000000000fa5007 R3:000000ff627ff007 S:000000ff62759800 P:000000fa14b30400
[ 561.043953] Oops: 0011 ilc:3 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 561.043964] Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp llc btrfs xor raid6_pq ghash_s390 prng ecb aes_s390 des_s390 des_generic sha512_s390 sha256_s390 sha1_s390 sha_common eadm_sch nfsd auth_rpcgss vhost_net tun oid_registry nfs_acl lockd vhost macvtap macvlan grace sunrpc dm_service_time dm_multipath dm_mod autofs4
[ 561.044057] CPU: 52 PID: 215 Comm: ksoftirqd/52 Not tainted 4.4.0+ #94
[ 561.044062] task: 000000fa5bc48000 ti: 000000fa5bc50000 task.ti: 000000fa5bc50000
[ 561.044066] Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 00000000001aa1ee (remove_entity_load_avg+0x1e/0x1b8)
[ 561.044080] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 000000fa0933b3d8 000000fa0b411860 000000fa14b30000
[ 561.044087] 00000000001ad750 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 000000000000000a
[ 561.044093] 0000000000d28b0c 0000000000c4ba28 0000000000000028 0000000000000140
[ 561.044095] 000000fa389f0348 000000000084cfb0 00000000001ad774 000000fa5bc53b88
[ 561.044105] Krnl Code: 00000000001aa1dc: c0d0003516ea larl %r13,84cfb0
00000000001aa1e2: e33020780004 lg %r3,120(%r2)
#00000000001aa1e8: e30020880004 lg %r0,136(%r2)
>00000000001aa1ee: e34030580004 lg %r4,88(%r3)
00000000001aa1f4: b9e90014 sgrk %r1,%r4,%r0
00000000001aa1f8: ec140095007c cgij %r1,0,4,1aa322
00000000001aa1fe: eb11000a000c srlg %r1,%r1,10
00000000001aa204: ec160013007c cgij %r1,0,6,1aa22a
[ 561.044170] Call Trace:
[ 561.044176] ([<00000000001ad750>] free_fair_sched_group+0x80/0xf8)
[ 561.044181] [<0000000000192656>] free_sched_group+0x2e/0x58
[ 561.044187] [<00000000001ded82>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x3fa/0x928
[ 561.044194] [<00000000001676a4>] __do_softirq+0xd4/0x4b0
[ 561.044199] [<0000000000167abe>] run_ksoftirqd+0x3e/0xa8
[ 561.044204] [<000000000018d5bc>] smpboot_thread_fn+0x16c/0x2a0
[ 561.044210] [<0000000000188704>] kthread+0x10c/0x128
[ 561.044216] [<000000000083d8a2>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
[ 561.044220] [<000000000083d89c>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
[ 561.044223] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 561.044225] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[ 561.044230] [<00000000001ad76e>] free_fair_sched_group+0x9e/0xf8
[ 561.044237]
[ 561.044241] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Will look into that and see if fixing this makes the problem go away.
(unless somebody else has a quick idea)
Christian
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