Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:21:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: mmotm 2010-03-09-19-15: Lot of scheduling while atomic warnings related to RCU |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:57:46 +0000 Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:16:03PM -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-03-09-19-15 has been uploaded to > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > > > and will soon be available at > > > > git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git > > > > It contains the following patches against 2.6.34-rc1: > > > > With preempt and sleeping spinlock debugging on, I'm seeing a lot of warnings > about scheduling while atomic. Starts off with messages like > > [ 0.572278] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0x00000002 > [ 0.576004] 1 lock held by swapper/1: > [ 0.580002] #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff811b6950>] kobject_uevent_env+0x363/0x4d0 > [ 0.600001] Modules linked in: > [ 0.608003] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1-mm1-vanilla #1 > [ 0.612001] Call Trace: > [ 0.616005] [<ffffffff810727fe>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x22/0x24 > [ 0.620005] [<ffffffff810395ed>] __schedule_bug+0x77/0x7c > [ 0.624004] [<ffffffff812f4cc5>] schedule+0xcc/0x723 > [ 0.628003] [<ffffffff812f55b6>] schedule_timeout+0x2d/0x28d > [ 0.632003] [<ffffffff8107315d>] ? mark_held_locks+0x4d/0x6b > [ 0.636004] [<ffffffff812f81e9>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x5d > [ 0.640003] [<ffffffff810733de>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x110/0x134 > [ 0.644003] [<ffffffff812f4a0f>] wait_for_common+0xdc/0x152 > [ 0.648003] [<ffffffff8103a43b>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x14 > [ 0.652004] [<ffffffff812f4b28>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x1f > [ 0.656004] [<ffffffff8105cdf0>] call_usermodehelper_exec+0xad/0xfa > [ 0.660004] [<ffffffff81068429>] ? prepare_usermodehelper_creds+0x136/0x168 > [ 0.664003] [<ffffffff811b6a37>] kobject_uevent_env+0x44a/0x4d0 > [ 0.668003] [<ffffffff811b6950>] ? kobject_uevent_env+0x363/0x4d0 > [ 0.672003] [<ffffffff811b6ac8>] kobject_uevent+0xb/0xd > [ 0.676002] [<ffffffff811b5e65>] kset_register+0x37/0x3f > [ 0.680004] [<ffffffff8123239a>] bus_register+0x11f/0x2b1 > [ 0.684005] [<ffffffff8175973e>] platform_bus_init+0x2c/0x44 > [ 0.688003] [<ffffffff817597b9>] driver_init+0x1d/0x29 > [ 0.692004] [<ffffffff8172c69b>] kernel_init+0x12e/0x1e3 > [ 0.696003] [<ffffffff81003be4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 0.700004] [<ffffffff812f8794>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 > [ 0.704003] [<ffffffff8172c56d>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1e3 > [ 0.708002] [<ffffffff81003be0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 > > There are a lot of warnings along these lines during boot. This system did > boot *eventually* but it was in obvious trouble. The warnings appear to > be all around kobject_uevent_env acquiring the RCU lock and then going to > sleep. Most likely candidate problem patches in mmotm are > > sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper > sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper-fix > > But there are also a whole host of other sysctl-related changes around RCU in > there. The changelog implies that these patches are part of some long-lived > review process so I didn't delve too deeply. The people most likely to be > involved based on comments in the changelog are cc'd. >
Thanks. It's Neil's sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper-fix.patch which does
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c~sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper-fix +++ a/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -273,10 +273,11 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *k #endif /* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */ + rcu_read_lock(); helper = rcu_dereference(uevent_helper); if (helper[0]) retval = uevent_call_helper(subsystem, env); - + rcu_read_unlock(); exit: kfree(devpath); kfree(env);
Ho hum. I guess all of
#rcu-add-rcustring-adt-for-rcu-protected-strings.patch: TBU rcu-add-rcustring-adt-for-rcu-protected-strings.patch #add-a-kernel_address-that-works-for-data-too.patch: TBU add-a-kernel_address-that-works-for-data-too.patch sysctl-add-proc_rcu_string-to-manage-sysctls-using-rcu-strings.patch sysctl-use-rcu-strings-for-core_pattern-sysctl.patch sysctl-add-call_usermodehelper_cleanup.patch sysctl-convert-modprobe_path-to-proc_rcu_string.patch sysctl-convert-poweroff_command-to-proc_rcu_string.patch #sysctl-convert-hotplug-helper-string-to-proc_rcu_string.patch: jirislaby crash sysctl-convert-hotplug-helper-string-to-proc_rcu_string.patch #sysctl-use-rcu-protected-sysctl-for-ocfs-group-add-helper.patch: Joel nack sysctl-use-rcu-protected-sysctl-for-ocfs-group-add-helper.patch # sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper.patch sysctl-fix-up-remaining-references-to-uevent_helper-fix.patch # sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations.patch sysctl-clean-up-vm-related-variable-declarations-fix.patch # sysctl-remove-references-to-ctl_unnumbered-which-has-been-removed.patch # # sysctl-extern-cleanup-c_a_d.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-signal.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-binfmts.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-pid.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-mm.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-compat.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-latencytop.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-file-nr.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rcu.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-block-iopoll.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-module.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-sg.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-acct.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-rtmutex.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-lockdep.patch sysctl-extern-cleanup-poll.patch # kmod-add-init-function-to-usermodehelper.patch kmod-add-init-function-to-usermodehelper-fix.patch kmod-replace-call_usermodehelper_pipe-with-use-of-umh-init-function-and-resolve-limit.patch kmod-replace-call_usermodehelper_pipe-with-use-of-umh-init-function-and-resolve-limitcleanup.patch
are not a prospect for 2.6.34. There are issues in the rcustring patches and the others have dependencies. I suppose I can rebase sysctl-extern-cleanup-* though.
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