Re: 2.6.23-git8: Lock dependency engine debugging failure

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:28 -0700, David Hubbard wrote:
> I am not subscribed to LKML, so please CC me in replies. I am
> reporting a regression when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP is enabled in
> 2.6.23-git8. The error occurs immediately before loading init.
> Complete dmesg and kernel config are attached.
> 
> [   28.528074] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> [   28.528090] Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
> [   28.537431] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1036k
> [   28.622874] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags()

Could you try if the below patch works for you?

--
Subject: lockdep: fix fault vs irq tracing

Ensure we fixup the IRQ state before we hit any locking code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault_32.c |   10 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/mm/fault_64.c |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/fault_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/fault_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/fault_32.c
@@ -308,6 +308,16 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(st
 	int write, si_code;
 	int fault;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
+	/*
+	 * We can fault from pretty much anywhere, fix up the IRQ state.
+	 */
+	if (raw_irqs_disabled())
+		trace_hardirqs_off();
+	else
+		trace_hardirqs_on();
+#endif
+
 	/* get the address */
         address = read_cr2();
 
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/fault_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/fault_64.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/fault_64.c
@@ -311,6 +311,16 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_page_fault(
 	unsigned long flags;
 	siginfo_t info;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
+	/*
+	 * We can fault from pretty much anywhere, fix up the IRQ state.
+	 */
+	if (raw_irqs_disabled())
+		trace_hardirqs_off();
+	else
+		trace_hardirqs_on();
+#endif
+
 	tsk = current;
 	mm = tsk->mm;
 	prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem);


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