Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:58:12 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc |
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* Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> While booting with the 2.6.25-rc1-git1 kernel on the powerbox the > softlockup is seen, with following trace.
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:377] > TASK = c00000077cb2f0e0[377] 'insmod' THREAD: c00000077cb28000 CPU: 1 > NIP [c0000000001b172c] .radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xdc/0x1e4 > LR [c0000000001a6f00] .call_for_each_cic+0x50/0x10c > Call Trace: > [c00000077cb2bb20] [c0000000001a6f60] .call_for_each_cic+0xb0/0x10c (unreliable) > [c00000077cb2bc60] [c00000000019ecd8] .exit_io_context+0xf0/0x110 > [c00000077cb2bcf0] [c00000000006254c] .do_exit+0x820/0x850 > [c00000077cb2bda0] [c000000000062648] .do_group_exit+0xcc/0xe8 > [c00000077cb2be30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
this call_for_each_cic/radix_tree_gang_lookup locked up, and all other CPUs deadlocked in stopmachine, due to this one.
call_for_each_cic is in ./block/cfq-iosched.c uses RCU, but you've got classic-RCU:
CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set
so it's not related to the preempt-RCU changes either.
It is this part that locks up:
do { ... nr = radix_tree_gang_lookup(&ioc->radix_root, (void **) cics, index, CIC_GANG_NR); ... } while (nr == CIC_GANG_NR); ...
it seems the radix tree will yield new entries again and again. Either it got corrupted, or some other CPU is filling it faster than we can deplete it [unlikely i think].
Ingo
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