Re: [PATCH] genhd: Do not hold event lock when scheduling workqueue elements

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Feb 07 2017 - 11:13:42 EST


On 02/06/2017 11:29 PM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
>> From: linux-block-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-block-
>> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dexuan Cui
>> with the linux-next kernel.
>>
>> I can boot the guest with linux-next's next-20170130 without any issue,
>> but since next-20170131 I haven't succeeded in booting the guest.
>>
>> With next-20170203 (mentioned in my mail last Friday), I got the same
>> calltrace as Hannes.
>>
>> With today's linux-next (next-20170206), actually the calltrace changed to
>> the below.
>> [ 122.023036] ? remove_wait_queue+0x70/0x70
>> [ 122.051383] async_synchronize_full+0x17/0x20
>> [ 122.076925] do_init_module+0xc1/0x1f9
>> [ 122.097530] load_module+0x24bc/0x2980
>
> I don't know why it hangs here, but this is the same calltrace in my
> last-Friday mail, which contains 2 calltraces. It looks the other calltrace has
> been resolved by some changes between next-20170203 and today.
>
> Here the kernel is trying to load the Hyper-V storage driver (hv_storvsc), and
> the driver's __init and .probe have finished successfully and then the kernel
> hangs here.
>
> I believe something is broken recently, because I don't have any issue before
> Jan 31.

Can you try and bisect it?

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Jens Axboe