Re: warn_slowpath_common WARNING on boot since 3.0.0-git7

[Alessandro Suardi]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alessandro Suardi
<alessandro.suardi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:31:51 +0200 Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>>
>>> F15 x86_64, still present in 3.0.0-git11; didn't report it earlier as I
>>>  thought it'd be squashed sooner... probably it's not as common
>>>  as I thought it'd be:
>>>
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: WARNING: at fs/proc/base.c:1123
>>> oom_adjust_write+0x185/0x23c()
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: Hardware name: Latitude E6400
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: sshd (3245): /proc/3245/oom_adj is
>>> deprecated, please use /proc/3245/oom_score_adj instead.
>>
>> Looks like sshd is using a deprecated /proc interface.
>> fs/proc/base.c:1118 says:
>>         * Warn that /proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated, see
>>         * Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
>>
>> What else needs to be done here?
>>
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: Modules linked in: sunrpc rfcomm bnep
>>> ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_defrag_ipv6
>>> nf_conntrack_ipv4 ip6table_filter nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6_tables xt_state
>>> nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables snd_hda_codec_hdmi
>>> snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec aes_x86_64 aes_generic
>>> ecb snd_hwdep btusb snd_seq snd_seq_device bluetooth snd_pcm
>>> dell_laptop snd_timer snd i2c_i801 rfkill microcode pcspkr joydev
>>> soundcore snd_page_alloc dcdbas ipv6 autofs4 ext4 jbd2 crc16 sdhci_pci
>>> firewire_ohci sdhci firewire_core crc_itu_t mmc_core i915
>>> drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video [last unloaded:
>>> scsi_wait_scan]
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: Pid: 3245, comm: sshd Not tainted 3.0.0-git7 #6
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: Call Trace:
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff8103774c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0x96
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff810377f8>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff810408f4>] ? ns_capable+0x35/0x4a
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff81129fb8>] oom_adjust_write+0x185/0x23c
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff810e0736>] vfs_write+0xa3/0xca
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff8109176f>] ?
>>> trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xe/0x22
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff810e08d2>] sys_write+0x45/0x69
>>> Jul 27 18:46:18 duff kernel: [<ffffffff813752fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> Well, the obsolescence was discussed a while ago in this thread
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1301830
>
>  and my kernel dmesg output has been telling me ever since;
>  the "issue", if we can so call that, is that the WARNING trace
>  output appeared in 3.0.0-git7.
>
> In 3.0.0-git1 I still had
>
> Jul 24 12:22:01 duff kernel: sshd (3185): /proc/3185/oom_adj is
> deprecated, please use /proc/3185/oom_score_adj instead.
>
>  *without* the warn_slowpath_common WARNING.
>
> Is the extra tracing intentional, or a side effect of something else ?
>
>
> As a final note, the openssh fix appears to be in 5.7p1
>
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838
>
>  and I am running an updated F15 as of today
>
> [root@duff ~]# rpm -q openssh
> openssh-5.6p1-33.fc15.1.x86_64
>
> I guess I'll file a F15 bug later tonight, as I can't find one
>  already asking for the 5.7p1 fix backport to 5.6x.

F15 openssh bug just for the record:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727335

Thanks,

--alessandro

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   (Radiohead, "There There")
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