linux-kernel - Re: mmiotracer hangs the system

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:50:34 +0100
From:   Karol Herbst <karolherbst@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: mmiotracer hangs the system

sorry for that, but I forgot the patch

2016-11-19 11:56 GMT+01:00 Karol Herbst <karolherbst@...il.com>:
> this is odd, I found a bug related to nouveau (modprobe/bind doesn't
> return), but that isn't related to your issue at all or maybe it is
> exactly this, cause the binding of the device doesn't return and
> depending on the kind of driver, it would hang the system... yeah,
> maybe it is the same issue.
>
> anyway, could you try to trace with the attached patch? Maybe the
> additional output would help me to verify it. Currently I am working
> on the bugfix I mentioned above and this may also fix your issue. I
> was still able to get a working mmiotrace file, even if the dvice
> binding didn't finish. Is this the same for you? (try cat
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > some_file"; and see if this
> contains anything usefull).
>
> This really looks like an odd issue, because the mmiotracer still
> behaves as expected.
>
> 2016-10-22 18:02 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>:
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Karol Herbst <karolherbst@...il.com> wrote:
>>> sorry for the delay fixing that bug. I got occupied with other things
>>> and didn't really got to the issue again, it is on my todo list as the
>>> next item though and I hope I will be able to get a fix ready this
>>> weekend. I think I might know where the issue is, but didn't confirm
>>> it yet.
>>
>> Thanks.I'm still using revert. Feel free to Cc me when you will have
>> some material to test.
>>
>>>
>>> Again, sorry for the delay.
>>>
>>> Karol
>>>
>>> 2016-08-19 22:46 GMT+02:00 Karol Herbst <karolherbst@...il.com>:
>>>> Hi again,
>>>>
>>>> I was able to get a crash/freeze/something while unbinding/binding my
>>>> nvidia gpu from nouveau.
>>>>
>>>> Guess that means something is odd. I will investigate this more over
>>>> the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> 2016-08-19 17:35 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 6:08 PM, karol herbst <karolherbst@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 2016-08-19 15:02 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:35 PM, karol herbst <karolherbst@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> is there any update on that issue I missed somehow? I really don't
>>>>>>>> want to leave the mmiotracer in a state, where it breaks something
>>>>>>>> while fixing other issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No updates. I'm busy right now with more priority tasks and revert
>>>>>>> works for me. Issue is reproducible in my case 100%.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there something I could do with a "normal" haswell desktop system
>>>>>> to reproduce this issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> Try LPSS UART device(s)
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll try to play around the next days a bit and maybe I find something
>>>>>> that works out here as well. It seems to be related to
>>>>>> unmapping-mapping cycles.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is the only thing I would think of.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because if this only happens with the pwm-lpss driver,
>>>>>
>>>>> It has nothing to do with pwm-lpss since it's a HS UART and served by
>>>>> intel-lpss driver.
>>>>>
>>>>>> it may be
>>>>>> really troublesome to debug, because I don't really know the code that
>>>>>> well to be sure where the issue might be.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, I would able to attach dmesg in case it would be helpful.
>>>>>>> Otherwise tell me exact instructions how to debug the issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here you are:
>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/raw/VfTZENt7
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But for now, without being able to even reproduce the issue, I can't
>>>>>>>> really do much, because the code in the current state looks sane to
>>>>>>>> me. Maybe this case includes the mmiotracer cleaning things up and
>>>>>>>> arms new region for mmiotracing and that's why it fails? Besides that,
>>>>>>>> I have no idea and no way to reproduce this, so I can't help this way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe. First thing happened is iounmap().
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> With Best Regards,
>>>>> Andy Shevchenko
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> With Best Regards,
>> Andy Shevchenko

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