Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045Ab3EFUJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2013 16:09:23 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:40754 "EHLO mail-ia0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755871Ab3EFUJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2013 16:09:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130506194351.GH3501@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20130506175647.GA1309@redhat.com> <20130506190522.GD3501@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130506192653.GA16819@redhat.com> <20130506194351.GH3501@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:09:22 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4B4ndxbERI2Zm4jJaxIoJnE6Jkc Message-ID: Subject: Re: rcu_init allocation failure trace on bootup From: Yinghai Lu To: Paul McKenney Cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4254 Lines: 85 On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:26:53PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:05:22PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:56:47PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: >> > > [ 0.000000] RCU debugfs-based tracing is enabled. >> > > [ 0.000000] RCU lockdep checking is enabled. >> > > [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> > > [ 0.000000] WARNING: at mm/nobootmem.c:215 ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x3a/0x7d() >> > > [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: >> > > [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0+ #128 >> > > [ 0.000000] Hardware name: /D975XBX, BIOS BX97510J.86A.1209.2006.0601.1340 06/01/2006 >> > > [ 0.000000] ffffffff819f4246 ffffffff81c01e68 ffffffff816a0db2 ffffffff81c01ea8 >> > > [ 0.000000] ffffffff8104b1a0 ffffffff819e1078 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 >> > > [ 0.000000] ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000040 0000000000000000 ffffffff81c01eb8 >> > > [ 0.000000] Call Trace: >> > > [ 0.000000] [] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b >> > > [ 0.000000] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x3a/0x7d >> > > [ 0.000000] [] __alloc_bootmem+0x13/0x39 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var+0x1a/0x21 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] rcu_init+0x7f/0x261 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] ? perf_event_init+0x178/0x181 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] start_kernel+0x232/0x3d3 >> > > [ 0.000000] [] ? repair_env_string+0x5e/0x5e >> > > [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c >> > > [ 0.000000] [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xcd/0xd1 >> > > [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0acfc82c197165dd ]--- >> > > [ 0.000000] Experimental no-CBs for all CPUs >> > > [ 0.000000] Experimental no-CBs CPUs: 0-1. >> > > [ 0.000000] NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: 1. >> > >> > Do you have commit fa0f93cd6a (rcu: Don't allocate bootmem from rcu_init())? >> > If not, could you please try applying it? >> >> That commit isn't in Linus tree. > > You are quite right, I am getting ahead of myself. Please see below > for the patch. > > Thanx, Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > rcu: Don't allocate bootmem from rcu_init() > > When rcu_init() is called we already have slab working, allocating > bootmem at that point results in warnings and an allocation from > slab. This commit therefore changes alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() to > alloc_cpumask_var() in rcu_bootup_announce_oddness(), which is called > from rcu_init(). > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett > > diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h > index ca6e39c..44b0998 100644 > --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h > +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h > @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void __init rcu_bootup_announce_oddness(void) > #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU > #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE > if (!have_rcu_nocb_mask) { > - alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask); > + alloc_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask, GFP_KERNEL); Do you need to use zalloc_cpumask_var instead? > have_rcu_nocb_mask = true; > } > #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/