Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:46:59 +0400 | | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | | Subject | Re: [Bug #10815] 2.6.26-rc4: RIP find_pid_ns+0x6b/0xa0 |
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:31:26PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:01:54AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:38:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > > If that is the right thing to do. I would feel better about it if I > > > > could reproduce the failure. > > > > > > Is there some configuration thing that might make it happen for Alexey but > > > not for you? The only obvious one is the normal PREEMPT thing, but > > > PREEMPT_RCU obviously depends on that, so there must be something else. > > > > > > CONFIG_SMP? CONFIG_NO_HZ? CONFIG_[RT|FAIR]_GROUP_SCHED? There's a number > > > of config options that change scheduling details.. > > > > The only way I can "fix" rcutorture here is SMP=n (not maxcpus=1!). > > I am running SMP=y without seeing the problem. > > > Among things tried and do not matter are NO_HZ, HIGH_RES_TIMERS, turning off > > debugging options (one by one and in bulk), DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS, HZ tweaks, > > SCHED_MC. > > > > All of this doesn't help, but SMP=n does. > > Attached is the compressed config file I used for a run on a POWER > machine. I have used similar config files for x86. For this run, I built > LTP, installed it, started rcutorture, ran LTP, then ended rcutorture. > > The only other thing I can think of is that Alexey's machines are > somehow managing to nest NMIs or something. I can produce a fix for > that, but have no way of testing it.
No NMIs here according to /proc/interrupts .
CPU0 CPU1 0: 42 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 8 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci, uhci_hcd:usb1 17: 35 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_jmicron, uhci_hcd:usb2 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb6 19: 6238 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb5 22: 278 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel 23: 2802 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4, ehci_hcd:usb7, eth1 319: 5126 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 66777 66036 Local timer interrupts RES: 3031 3403 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 17 62 function call interrupts TLB: 671 900 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0
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