Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751885AbWJMVQe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751895AbWJMVQe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:16:34 -0400 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([194.97.50.131]:28075 "EHLO mout0.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751885AbWJMVQd (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:16:33 -0400 From: Karsten Wiese To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rt1 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:18:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: Lee Revell , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , John Stultz , "Paul E. McKenney" , Arjan van de Ven References: <20060920141907.GA30765@elte.hu> <1159639564.4067.43.camel@mindpipe> <20060930181804.GA28768@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20060930181804.GA28768@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610132318.02512.annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> X-Warning: yahoo.de is listed at abuse.rfc-ignorant.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4002 Lines: 91 Am Samstag, 30. September 2006 20:18 schrieb Dipankar Sarma: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 16:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > I'm pleased to announce the 2.6.18-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded > > > from the usual place: > > > > > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > > > I got this Oops with -rt3, looks RCU related. Apologies in advance if > > it's already known. > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: > > [] __rcu_read_unlock+0x2e/0x82 > > PGD 46a3067 PUD 4e27067 PMD 0 > > Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT SMP > > CPU 1 > > I see a very similar crash while running rcutorture on 2.6.18-mm1 and > my rcu patchset that has rcupreempt stuff rom -rt. I don't see this > while running on 2.6.18-rc3, but then rc3 had an older version > of rcutorture. I am working on narrowing it down. > > The following script reproduces the problem quickly (within > a couple of minutes) in my 4-cpu x86_64 system - > > #! /bin/sh > for ((i=0 ; i<200 ; i++)) > do > echo "Starting pass $i" > modprobe rcutorture stat_interval=10 # test_no_idle_hz=1 shuffle_interval=5 > sleep 30 > rmmod rcutorture > dmesg | sed -n -e '/^rcutorture: --- End of test:/p' | tail -1 > done > exit 0 > Bug just happened here on a tainted UP x86_64 running rt4. IIRC this is the second time in 2 weeks or so. Machine seams to be fine still after the oops... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: [] __rcu_read_unlock+0x2e/0x80 PGD 3b616067 PUD 1718b067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT CPU 0 Modules linked in: autofs4 sunrpc video button ac lp parport_pc parport nvram snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq nvidia snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm ehci_hcd uhci_hcd snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi pcspkr snd_seq_device snd i2c_viapro i2c_core r8169 soundcore ext3 jbd Pid: 7102, comm: sh Tainted: P 2.6.18-rt4 #4 RIP: 0010:[] [] __rcu_read_unlock+0x2e/0x80 RSP: 0018:ffff8100189ebc00 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff81003fd0d450 RCX: 0000000000000246 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff81003e351008 RDI: ffff81003fd0d458 RBP: ffff81003fd0d450 R08: ffff81003e351005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8022a714 R12: ffff81003fd0d458 R13: ffff81003f43b070 R14: ffff8100189ebcb8 R15: 000000000023605a FS: 00002ac8f7d9dd50(0000) GS:ffffffff8053f000(0000) knlGS:00000000f7fa96c0 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000003582f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process sh (pid: 7102, threadinfo ffff8100189ea000, task ffff81000c8d2080) Stack: ffffffff80208d3b 00000001000200d2 00000003804686b0 ffff81003e351005 00000000000041ed ffff8100189ebe48 ffff81003f7bd788 ffff81003fde8cc0 ffff8100189ebe48 ffff8100189ebcb8 ffffffff8020be2c 00000000000041ed Call Trace: [] __d_lookup+0x10a/0x11c [] do_lookup+0x2a/0x173 [] __link_path_walk+0x3ac/0xf4a [] link_path_walk+0x5a/0xe1 [] do_path_lookup+0x26d/0x2e9 [] getname+0x15b/0x1c1 [] __user_walk_fd+0x37/0x4c [] vfs_stat_fd+0x1b/0x4a [] sys_newstat+0x19/0x31 [] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Code: ff 08 65 48 8b 04 25 00 00 00 00 48 c7 80 a8 00 00 00 00 00 RIP [] __rcu_read_unlock+0x2e/0x80 RSP CR2: 0000000000000000 Thanks Karsten - 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/