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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > Subject: clean up and comment local_bh_enable code
> >
> > There's no need to use local_irq_save() over local_irq_disable() in
> > the local_bh_enable code since it is a bug to call it with irqs
> > disabled and do_softirq will enable irqs if there is any pending
> > work. Consolidate the code from local_bh_enable and ..._ip to avoid
> > having a disconnect between them in the warnings they trigger that
> > is currently there. Also always trigger the warning on in_irq(), not
> > just in the trace-irqflags case.
>
> applied to tip/core/softirq for testing, thanks Johannes.

ok, -tip testing found that your patch triggers a new warning on an old
testbox that uses 3c59x vortex and netlogging:

----->
calling vortex_init+0x0/0xb0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:0b.1
3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
0000:00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c556 Laptop Tornado at e0800400.
PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device 0000:00:0b.0
initcall vortex_init+0x0/0xb0 returned 0 after 47 msecs
...
calling init_netconsole+0x0/0x1b0
netconsole: local port 4444
netconsole: local IP 10.0.1.9
netconsole: interface eth0
netconsole: remote port 4444
netconsole: remote IP 10.0.1.16
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:19:xx:xx:xx:xx
netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
eth0: setting half-duplex.
eth0: setting full-duplex.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:137 local_bh_enable_ip+0xd1/0xe0()
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc6-tip #2091
[<c0125ecf>] warn_on_slowpath+0x4f/0x70
[<c0126834>] ? release_console_sem+0x1b4/0x1d0
[<c0126d00>] ? vprintk+0x2a0/0x450
[<c012fde5>] ? __mod_timer+0xa5/0xc0
[<c046f7fd>] ? mdio_sync+0x3d/0x50
[<c0160ef6>] ? marker_probe_cb+0x46/0xa0
[<c0126ed7>] ? printk+0x27/0x50
[<c046f4c3>] ? vortex_set_duplex+0x43/0xc0
[<c046f521>] ? vortex_set_duplex+0xa1/0xc0
[<c0471b92>] ? vortex_timer+0xe2/0x3e0
[<c012b361>] local_bh_enable_ip+0xd1/0xe0
[<c08d9f9f>] _spin_unlock_bh+0x2f/0x40
[<c0471b92>] vortex_timer+0xe2/0x3e0
[<c014743b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
[<c0147358>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x88/0x160
[<c012f8b2>] run_timer_softirq+0x162/0x1c0
[<c0471ab0>] ? vortex_timer+0x0/0x3e0
[<c012b361>] local_bh_enable_ip+0xd1/0xe0
[<c08d9f9f>] _spin_unlock_bh+0x2f/0x40
[<c0471b92>] vortex_timer+0xe2/0x3e0
[<c014743b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
[<c0147358>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x88/0x160
[<c012f8b2>] run_timer_softirq+0x162/0x1c0
[<c0471ab0>] ? vortex_timer+0x0/0x3e0
[<c0471ab0>] ? vortex_timer+0x0/0x3e0
[<c012b60a>] __do_softirq+0x9a/0x160
[<c012b570>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x160
[<c0106775>] call_on_stack+0x15/0x30
[<c012b4f5>] ? irq_exit+0x55/0x60
[<c0106e85>] ? do_IRQ+0x85/0xd0
[<c0147391>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xc1/0x160
[<c0104888>] ? common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
[<c08d8ac8>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0x10
[<c08d8180>] ? _cond_resched+0x10/0x30
[<c07a3be7>] ? netpoll_setup+0x117/0x390
[<c0cbfcfe>] ? init_netconsole+0x14e/0x1b0
[<c013d539>] ? ktime_get+0x19/0x40
[<c0c9bab2>] ? kernel_init+0x1b2/0x2c0
[<c0cbfbb0>] ? init_netconsole+0x0/0x1b0
[<c0396aa4>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
[<c0103f12>] ? restore_nocheck_notrace+0x0/0xe
[<c0c9b900>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2c0
[<c0c9b900>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2c0
[<c0104aa7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
=======================
---[ end trace 37f9c502aff112e0 ]---
console [netcon0] enabled
netconsole: network logging started
initcall init_netconsole+0x0/0x1b0 returned 0 after 2914 msecs

real bug or false positive?

config is at:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Fri_Jun_20_16_51_07_CEST_2008.bad

Ingo


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