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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:15:27 +0200
From: Arne Jansen <lists@die-jansens.de>
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Subject: Re: [debug patch] printk: Add a printk killswitch to robustify NMI
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On 05.06.2011 21:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Arne Jansen<lists@die-jansens.de>  wrote:
>
>>  From the timing I see I'd guess it has something to do with the
>> scheduler kicking in during printk. I'm neither familiar with the
>> printk code nor with the scheduler.
>
> Yeah, that's the well-known wake-up of klogd:
>
> void console_unlock(void)
> {
> ...
>          up(&console_sem);
>
> actually ... that's not the klogd wake-up at all (!). I so suck today
> at bug analysis :-)
>
> It's the console lock()/unlock() sequence, and guess what does it:
>
>   drivers/tty/tty_io.c:   console_lock();
>   drivers/tty/vt/selection.c:     console_lock();
>
> and the vt.c code in a dozen places.
>
> So maybe it's some sort of tty related memory corruption that was
> made *visible* via the extra assert that the scheduler is doing? The
> pi_list is embedded in task struct.
>
> This would explain why only printk() triggers it and other wakeup
> patterns not.
>
> Now, i don't really like this theory either. Why is there no other
> type of corruption? And exactly why did only the task_struct::pi_lock
> field get corrupted while nearby fields not? Also, none of the fields
> near pi_lock are even remotely tty related.

Can lockdep just get confused by the lockdep_off/on calls in printk
while scheduling is allowed? There aren't many users of lockdep_off().

I'll can try again tomorrow to get a dump of all logs from the
watchdog, but enough for today...

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