Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756240AbZDVRR6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:17:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753835AbZDVRRt (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:17:49 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:49673 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753587AbZDVRRs (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:17:48 -0400 Message-ID: <49EF5138.3030408@goop.org> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:17:44 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederic Weisbecker CC: Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Andrew Morton , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: various bug fixes References: <20090420222257.267399830@goodmis.org> <20090421082354.GC12512@elte.hu> <20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu> <20090422114750.GA14202@nowhere> <20090422171047.GA5975@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20090422171047.GA5975@nowhere> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2633 Lines: 77 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> >>>> I spent the entire day (and half the night) debugging this. I was fighting >>>> a case where the hardirqs_enabled flag in the task struct (lockdep flag) >>>> was mysteriously being set and cleared. I stepped through the entire >>>> kernel thread fork process (that was an exercise) and could not find >>>> anything wrong. >>>> >>>> Sometimes it would go away with printk's sometimes it would not. This was >>>> driving me crazy, until I noticed that paravirt was enabled. >>>> >>>> Turning off paravirtualization here (so far) makes everything run >>>> smoothly. >>>> >>>> Thus my theory is that there's something fishy with the modifying of the >>>> irq enable/disable code when the system detects that it is running on bare >>>> hardware. >>>> >>>> I'm too tired to look at this more. Ingo supplied a config to play with. >>>> You can disable VSMP too and it will still trigger the crash. >>>> >>>> -- Steve >>>> >>>> >>> It's indeed a tricky one. I can reproduce it too, I will >>> try to manage having an irqsoff trace at this point, hopefully I >>> could get the source of this irq disabling... >>> >> It doesn't disable interrupts :-/ >> >> It is the hardirqs_enabled flag in the task struct that mysteriously turns >> off and back on. I put in printks when it is off in fork, and the next >> printk shows that it turns back on (between the printks!!!). >> >> I printed the output of "irqs_disabled()" on each of these printks and >> interrupts are always enabled. It is only the hardirqs_enabled flag that >> is giving strange outputs. >> > > > Oh, weird... > > > >> Do you have CONFIG_PARAVIRT on? When I disabled it, I have yet to >> reproduce the bug. But I've only rebooted a few times. I'm going to >> continue to reboot to see if I can trigger it. >> > > > Yes it is enabled. > > > > >> I'm thinking that the paravirt alternative code may have clobbered a >> register in either the enable or disabling of interrupts. This might cause >> a strange value to go into the hardirqs_enabled flag. >> > > > > Ok I will try it without PARAVIRT and tell you if I can reproduce it. > Interesting. What code is generated for native_irq_enable/disable? J -- 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/