Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264026AbUDGA1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:27:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264054AbUDGA1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:27:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:57766 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264026AbUDGA1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:27:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:29:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Brian King Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: call_usermodehelper hang Message-Id: <20040406172903.186dd5f1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4072F2B7.2070605@us.ibm.com> References: <4072F2B7.2070605@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3332 Lines: 62 Brian King wrote: > > I have been running into some kernel hangs due to call_usermodehelper. Looking > at the backtrace, it looks to me like there are deadlock issues with adding > devices from work queues. Attached is a sample backtrace from one of the > hangs I experienced. My question is why does call_usermodehelper do 2 different > things depending on whether or not it is called from the kevent task? It appears > that the simple way to fix the hang would be to never have call_usermodehelper > use a work_queue since it must be called from process context anyway, or > am I missing something? > swapper is running call_usermodehelper() while holding down_write(&bus->subsys.rwsem); via bus_add_driver(). Meanwhile, keventd is blocked on the same lock in bus_add_device(). I'd say that the bug lies in the kobject code - we should not call call_usermodehelper() while holding any locks which keventd may ever acquire. > 0xc0000000017df300 1 0 0 0 D 0xc0000000017df7b0 swapper > SP(esp) PC(eip) Function(args) > 0xc00000003fc9f460 0x0000000000000000 NO_SYMBOL or Userspace > 0xc00000003fc9f4f0 0xc000000000058c40 .schedule +0xb4 > 0xc00000003fc9f5c0 0xc00000000005a464 .wait_for_completion +0x138 > 0xc00000003fc9f6c0 0xc00000000007c594 .call_usermodehelper +0x104 > 0xc00000003fc9f810 0xc00000000022d3e8 .kobject_hotplug +0x3c4 > 0xc00000003fc9f900 0xc00000000022d67c .kobject_add +0x134 > 0xc00000003fc9f9a0 0xc00000000012b3d8 .register_disk +0x70 > 0xc00000003fc9fa40 0xc00000000027dfe4 .add_disk +0x60 > 0xc00000003fc9fad0 0xc0000000002dc7dc .sd_probe +0x290 > 0xc00000003fc9fb80 0xc00000000026fbe8 .bus_match +0x94 > 0xc00000003fc9fc10 0xc00000000026ff70 .driver_attach +0x8c > 0xc00000003fc9fca0 0xc000000000270104 .bus_add_driver +0x110 > 0xc00000003fc9fd50 0xc000000000270a18 .driver_register +0x38 > 0xc00000003fc9fdd0 0xc0000000002cd8f8 .scsi_register_driver +0x28 > 0xc00000003fc9fe50 0xc0000000004941d8 .init_sd +0x8c > 0xc00000003fc9fee0 0xc00000000000c720 .init +0x25c > 0xc00000003fc9ff90 0xc0000000000183ec .kernel_thread +0x4c > > 0xc00000003fab3380 4 1 0 0 D 0xc00000003fab3830 events/0 > SP(esp) PC(eip) Function(args) > 0xc00000003faaf6e0 0x0000000000000000 NO_SYMBOL or Userspace > 0xc00000003faaf770 0xc000000000058c40 .schedule +0xb4 > 0xc00000003faaf840 0xc00000000022fa20 .rwsem_down_write_failed +0x14c > 0xc00000003faaf910 0xc00000000026fed0 .bus_add_device +0x11c > 0xc00000003faaf9b0 0xc00000000026e288 .device_add +0xd0 > 0xc00000003faafa50 0xc0000000002cdb00 .scsi_sysfs_add_sdev +0x8c > 0xc00000003faafb00 0xc0000000002cbff8 .scsi_probe_and_add_lun +0xb04 > 0xc00000003faafc00 0xc0000000002ccca0 .scsi_add_device +0x90 > 0xc00000003faafcb0 0xc0000000002d9458 .ipr_worker_thread +0xc60 > 0xc00000003faafdc0 0xc00000000007cd9c .worker_thread +0x268 > 0xc00000003faafee0 0xc0000000000839cc .kthread +0x160 > 0xc00000003faaff90 0xc0000000000183ec .kernel_thread +0x4c - 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/