linux-kernel - Re: run_timer_softirq gpf. tracing?

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:45:06 -0400
From:   Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: run_timer_softirq gpf. tracing?

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:25:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

 > > RAX looks like list poison, and CR2 = 4, which is likely the ->next of a list,
 > > with a NULL pointer.
 > 
 > Certainly not on 64 bit. that would be 8. And CR2 is irrelevant here
 > because that's a #GP not a #PF.

doh!

 > The timer which expires has timer->entry.next == POISON2 !
 > 
 > This has nothing to do with tracing, it's a classic list corruption.  The
 > bad news is that there is no trace of the culprit because that happens when
 > some other timer expires after some random amount of time.

ah! Thanks for putting me back on the right path.

 > If that is reproducible, then please enable debugobjects. That should
 > pinpoint the culprit.

hit it twice today so far, so hopefully it'll reproduce.

thanks.

	Dave