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SubjectRe: 2.5.38-mm1
Robert Love wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It found a bug. Someone is calling kmem_cache_create() in an
> > atomic region. Plus I think that during startup, in_atomic()
> > is (probably incorrectly) returning true.
>
> Would you mind doing a
>
> printk(KERN_ERR "kmem_cache_create called atomically!\n");
>
> too? I was confused as to what debugging check he was tripping. Yah
> yah, looking at the trace I should of known, but I didn't know you put a
> check in there... :)

Robert, I put checks in *everywhere*.

Because I put the checks in kmem_cache_alloc(), and alloc_pages(),
and down(), and down_read(), and they have quite a lot of callers.

Here's the (updated) patch:


--- 2.5.38/include/asm-i386/semaphore.h~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/include/asm-i386/semaphore.h Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static inline void down(struct semaphore
#if WAITQUEUE_DEBUG
CHECK_MAGIC(sem->__magic);
#endif
-
+ might_sleep();
__asm__ __volatile__(
"# atomic down operation\n\t"
LOCK "decl %0\n\t" /* --sem->count */
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static inline int down_interruptible(str
#if WAITQUEUE_DEBUG
CHECK_MAGIC(sem->__magic);
#endif
-
+ might_sleep();
__asm__ __volatile__(
"# atomic interruptible down operation\n\t"
LOCK "decl %1\n\t" /* --sem->count */
--- 2.5.38/include/linux/kernel.h~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/include/linux/kernel.h Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@

struct completion;

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
+void __might_sleep(char *file, int line);
+#define might_sleep() __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__)
+#else
+#define might_sleep() do {} while(0)
+#endif
+
extern struct notifier_block *panic_notifier_list;
NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, ...)
__attribute__ ((NORET_AND format (printf, 1, 2)));
--- 2.5.38/include/linux/rwsem.h~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/include/linux/rwsem.h Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ extern void FASTCALL(rwsemtrace(struct r
*/
static inline void down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
+ might_sleep();
rwsemtrace(sem,"Entering down_read");
__down_read(sem);
rwsemtrace(sem,"Leaving down_read");
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ static inline int down_read_trylock(stru
*/
static inline void down_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
+ might_sleep();
rwsemtrace(sem,"Entering down_write");
__down_write(sem);
rwsemtrace(sem,"Leaving down_write");
--- 2.5.38/kernel/ksyms.c~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/kernel/ksyms.c Sun Sep 22 17:58:09 2002
@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_64);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(xtime);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_gettimeofday);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday);
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__might_sleep);
+#endif
#if !defined(__ia64__)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(loops_per_jiffy);
#endif
--- 2.5.38/kernel/sched.c~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/kernel/sched.c Sun Sep 22 18:01:31 2002
@@ -2166,3 +2166,18 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
enter_lazy_tlb(&init_mm, current, smp_processor_id());
}

+void __might_sleep(char *file, int line)
+{
+#if defined(in_atomic)
+ static unsigned long prev_jiffy; /* ratelimiting */
+
+ if (in_atomic()) {
+ if (time_before(jiffies, prev_jiffy + HZ))
+ return;
+ prev_jiffy = jiffies;
+ printk("Sleeping function called from illegal"
+ " context at %s:%d\n", file, line);
+ dump_stack();
+ }
+#endif
+}
--- 2.5.38/mm/page_alloc.c~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Sep 22 17:58:09 2002
@@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ __alloc_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask, uns
struct page * page;
int freed, i;

+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)
+ might_sleep();
+
KERNEL_STAT_ADD(pgalloc, 1<<order);

zones = zonelist->zones; /* the list of zones suitable for gfp_mask */
--- 2.5.38/mm/slab.c~might_sleep Sun Sep 22 11:55:46 2002
+++ 2.5.38-akpm/mm/slab.c Sun Sep 22 17:58:09 2002
@@ -1374,6 +1374,9 @@ static inline void * __kmem_cache_alloc
unsigned long save_flags;
void* objp;

+ if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)
+ might_sleep();
+
kmem_cache_alloc_head(cachep, flags);
try_again:
local_irq_save(save_flags);
.
-
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