Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751644AbaK1QBS (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:01:18 -0500 Received: from mail-yk0-f172.google.com ([209.85.160.172]:39471 "EHLO mail-yk0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbaK1QBQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:01:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5476BFB4.2020705@hitachi.com> References: <1416292375-29560-1-git-send-email-dave.long@linaro.org> <20141120135851.GA32528@linaro.org> <54759041.9080105@hitachi.com> <20141126100325.GA9157@linaro.org> <5476120D.9030703@linaro.org> <5476BFB4.2020705@hitachi.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:01:15 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] ARM64: Add kernel probes(Kprobes) support From: Steve Capper To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: David Long , "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" , Russell King , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Sandeepa Prabhu , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Anil S Keshavamurthy , William Cohen , David Miller , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 27 November 2014 at 06:07, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2014/11/27 3:59), Steve Capper wrote: >> The crash is extremely easy to reproduce. >> >> I've not observed any missed events on a kprobe on an arm64 system >> that's still alive. >> My (limited!) understanding is that this suggests there could be a >> problem with how missed events from a recursive call to memcpy are >> being handled. > > I think so too. BTW, could you bisect that? :) > I can't bisect, but the following functions look suspicious to me (again I'm new to kprobes...): kprobes_save_local_irqflag kprobes_restore_local_irqflag I think these are breaking somehow when nested (i.e. from a recursive probe). That would explain why the state of play of the interrupts is in an unexpected state in the crash I reported: "The point of failure in the panic was: fs/buffer.c:1257 static inline void check_irqs_on(void) { #ifdef irqs_disabled BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()); #endif } " This is all new to me so I'm still at the head-scratching stage. David, Does the above make sense to you? Have you managed to reproduce the crash I get? Cheers, -- Steve -- 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/