Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:19:03 -0400 | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-mm7 | From | (Joseph Fannin) |
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:17:35AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > hm, OK. It could be that the debug patch is a bit too aggressive, or that > > ppc got lucky and happens to always be in state TASK_RUNNING when these > > calls to schedule() occur. > > > > Maybe this task incorrectly has _TIF_NEED_RESCHED set? > > Is CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled?
These traces are with preempt enabled, but I tried turning it off and the messages are still there (there seem to be a lot less of them, though.)
I would be glad to produce a dmesg with preempt off if it makes things clearer (tonight, or tommorrow, or I'd just do it now.)
> > Anyway, ppc guys: please take a look at the results from > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-mm7/broken-out/detect-too-early-schedule-attempts.patch > > and check that the kernel really should be calling schedule() at this time > > and place, let us know? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > The first one looks like: > > > > > > Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS > > > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > > > Badness in schedule at kernel/sched.c:2153 > > > Call trace: > > > [c00099e4] dump_stack+0x18/0x28 > > > [c0006bac] check_bug_trap+0x84/0xac > > > [c0006d38] ProgramCheckException+0x164/0x1a4 > > > [c0006240] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c > > > [c02021bc] schedule+0x24/0x684 > > > [c0005e80] syscall_exit_work+0x108/0x10c > > > [c02e0ad0] proc_root_init+0x14c/0x158 > > > [00000000] 0x0 > > > [c02ce5a0] start_kernel+0x158/0x184 > > > [000035fc] 0x35fc > > This looks like CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled and _TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set > at the end of handling a system call. AFAICS i386 will also call > schedule in these circumstances. Does this mean we shouldn't do > system calls until the scheduler is running? > > Paul. >
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