Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754378AbYH1Hp6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753032AbYH1Hpu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:45:50 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56149 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752957AbYH1Hpt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:45:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:45:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jens Axboe Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , jurriaan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4: lots of 'in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0' with software-raid1 Message-Id: <20080828004532.45d8b8c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080828073324.GR20055@kernel.dk> References: <20080827170538.GA24393@amd64.of.nowhere> <200808272347.43577.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080828073324.GR20055@kernel.dk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3893 Lines: 63 On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:33:24 +0200 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > [Adding CCs] > > > > On Wednesday, 27 of August 2008, jurriaan wrote: > > > After returning from my holidays, I proceeded to test 2.6.27-rc4. 2.6.26 > > > works fine, but 2.6.27-rc4 gives me lots of: > > > > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: Pid: 1185, comm: md2_raid1 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4 #2 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: Call Trace: > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] __might_sleep+0xdb/0x100 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] mempool_alloc+0x89/0x140 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] bio_alloc_bioset+0x2b/0xb0 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] bio_alloc+0x10/0x20 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] md_super_write+0x3a/0xe0 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] write_page+0x14e/0x310 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? rb_insert_color+0x101/0x130 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? update_curr+0x3f/0x60 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? __next_cpu+0x19/0x30 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? find_busiest_group+0x1dc/0x960 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] bitmap_update_sb+0xdb/0x110 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] md_update_sb+0x1e5/0x370 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] md_check_recovery+0x355/0x640 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] raid1d+0x35/0x10a0 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? finish_task_switch+0x3b/0xc0 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? thread_return+0xa3/0x63d > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? lock_timer_base+0x36/0x70 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5a/0x70 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? del_timer_sync+0x1a/0x30 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x40 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] md_thread+0x54/0x140 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? md_thread+0x0/0x140 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] kthread+0x49/0x80 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] child_rip+0xa/0x11 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? kthread+0x0/0x80 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: [] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11 > > > Aug 27 18:03:10 middle kernel: > > > > > > I was able to reboot into 2.6.26 without further trouble. I wasn't able > > > to find this reported earlier on lkml. > > Hmm, this just looks like a GFP_NOIO alloc inside rcu_read_lock(), I > don't see anything wrong with that? > Cant sleep inside rcu_read_lock(), with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=n, at least. Dunno if it's legal if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y. Hopefully not - that would be insane. But I've failed to keep up with rcu goings-on recently. -- 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/