Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:04 -0600 | From | Professor Berkley Shands <> | Subject | 3.0.18 tcsetattr on fd 0 when detached freezes system (RCU timeouts) (Centos 6.1 x86_64) |
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typedef struct { struct termios term; } XKEY_DATA;
typedef XKEY_DATA *xkeyhandle;
static inline xkeyhandle xkeystart() {
// Turn off echo. struct termios temp; err = tcgetattr(0, &temp); if (err) { perror("tcgetattr failure"); }
XKEY_DATA *handle = new XKEY_DATA; handle->term = temp;
temp.c_lflag &= ~ECHO; temp.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
err = tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &temp); // this line causes the kernel to get very sick if (err) { perror("tcsetattr failure"); }
return handle;
}
The above code, called from main() will produce an error from tcsh:
/home/bshands> ./a.out > /dev/null & [1] 3635 /home/bshands> /home/bshands> [1] + Suspended (tty output) ./a.out > /dev/null /home/bshands>
this does not appear on the redhat kernel, nor 2.6.32.43, but appeared infrequently in 3.0.9. in 3.0.18, doing this in the background does *EVIL* things.
ssh system "./a.out > /dev/null &" &
Now when the code reaches the tcsetattr() the system quits scheduling tasks. top shows 100%sy on 4/12 cores, kernel threads blocked, stalled tasks count increasing.
Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.891610] kjournald S ffff880321270a30 0 416 2 0x00000000 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.891684] ffff880321f5de50 0000000000000046 ffff880321270680 0000000000000000 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.891816] ffff880321270680 0000000000012ac0 ffff880321f5dfd8 ffff880321f5c010 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.891948] ffff880321f5dfd8 0000000000012ac0 ffff880327a61260 ffff880321270680 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892083] Call Trace: Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892144] [<ffffffff824c126f>] schedule+0x3f/0x60 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892226] [<ffffffffa0030f9d>] kjournald+0x20d/0x230 [jbd] Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892294] [<ffffffff82082230>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892362] [<ffffffffa0030d90>] ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10 [jbd] Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892431] [<ffffffff82081bb6>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892497] [<ffffffff824cbe04>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892565] [<ffffffff82081b20>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x1a0/0x1a0 Jan 27 18:58:50 system kernel: [ 1269.892633] [<ffffffff824cbe00>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
After a little while, the system locks up. rcu timeout errors may appear in dmesg. dumps are available.
Note that this little bugger is a user mode crash, once started, you are done. it appears that later use of termios is still sufficient to trigger the lockup. they key is being detached.
Berkley
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