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SubjectRe: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 panic on boot x86_64 NMI watchdog detected LOCKUP
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:13:00 -0700
> "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>> I just tried booting 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 (I was booting 2.6.17-mm6 just
>>fine) and got the following error on boot.
>>
>>CPU 15: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff 49 cycles, maxerr 4698 cycles)
>>Brought up 16 CPUs
>>testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
>>time.c: Using 333.333333 MHz WALL PIT GTOD PIT/HPET timer.
>>time.c: Detected 3002.570 MHz processor.
>>migration_cost=9,1121,16845
>>checking if image is initramfs... it is
>>Freeing initrd memory: 2770k freed
>>NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU 8
>>CPU 8
>>Modules linked in:
>>Pid: 51, comm: khelper Not tainted 2.6.18-rc1-mm1-smp #2
>>RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff803dd6f5>] [<ffffffff803dd6f5>]
>>.text.lock.spinlock+0x31/0x8a
>>RSP: 0000:ffff81065f91be70 EFLAGS: 00000086
>>RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810476ce3380 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>RDX: ffff81046fad4108 RSI: ffff81046fad4000 RDI: ffff810476ce3384
>>RBP: ffff810476ce3380 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000036f849
>>R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff81065f91bf04
>>R13: ffff81065f91bef8 R14: ffff810476dcdd18 R15: ffffffff8023f7a8
>>FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff810476f79140(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
>>CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>>Process khelper (pid: 51, threadinfo ffff81065f91a000, task ffff81046fedd080)
>>Stack: ffffffff803dd040 ffff81047003f8c0 ffff81065f91bef8 ffff810476dcdd18
>> 0000000000000246 ffff81046fad4108 ffff810476ce3380 ffff81046fad4108
>> ffffffff8025b211 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff81046fedd080
>>Call Trace:
>> [<ffffffff803dd040>] __down_read+0x12/0x9a
>> [<ffffffff8025b211>] taskstats_exit_alloc+0x59/0x8a
>> [<ffffffff80232e89>] do_exit+0x178/0x8f6
>> [<ffffffff8023f940>] request_module+0x0/0x150
>> [<ffffffff8020a05a>] child_rip+0x8/0x12
>> [<ffffffff8023f7a8>] __call_usermodehelper+0x0/0x47
>> [<ffffffff8023f866>] ____call_usermodehelper+0x0/0xda
>> [<ffffffff8020a052>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
>>
>>
>>Code: 7e f9 e9 d3 fe ff ff f3 90 83 3b 00 7e f9 e9 da fe ff ff e8
>>console shuts up ...
>>
>>
>>Any ideas, have we seen this? I can attach config and full dmesg if needed.
>>
>
>
> Thanks. Shailabh sent the below patch through yesterday. It looks awfully
> similar.


Yes, this lockup on boot is caused by not initializing the per-cpu
semaphores early enough. The patch below should fix it.

--Shailabh

>
> From: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
>
> Shift initialization of semaphores taken on exit() path to earlier in the
> bootup sequence. Without this fix, booting on large cpu machines hangs at
> down_read() called on one of the per-cpu semaphores declared in taskstats.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> ---
>
> kernel/taskstats.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN kernel/taskstats.c~per-task-delay-accounting-taskstats-interface-control-exit-data-through-cpumasks-fix-2 kernel/taskstats.c
> --- a/kernel/taskstats.c~per-task-delay-accounting-taskstats-interface-control-exit-data-through-cpumasks-fix-2
> +++ a/kernel/taskstats.c
> @@ -501,15 +501,20 @@ static struct genl_ops taskstats_ops = {
> /* Needed early in initialization */
> void __init taskstats_init_early(void)
> {
> + unsigned int i;
> +
> taskstats_cache = kmem_cache_create("taskstats_cache",
> sizeof(struct taskstats),
> 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
> + for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(per_cpu(listener_array, i).list));
> + init_rwsem(&(per_cpu(listener_array, i).sem));
> + }
> }
>
> static int __init taskstats_init(void)
> {
> int rc;
> - unsigned int i;
>
> rc = genl_register_family(&family);
> if (rc)
> @@ -519,11 +524,6 @@ static int __init taskstats_init(void)
> if (rc < 0)
> goto err;
>
> - for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(per_cpu(listener_array, i).list));
> - init_rwsem(&(per_cpu(listener_array, i).sem));
> - }
> -
> family_registered = 1;
> return 0;
> err:
> _
>

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