Re: [BUG] lockup with the latest kernel

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > 
> > >     x86: make x86_32 use tlb_64.c
> > >     
> > >     Impact: less contention when issuing invalidate IPI, cleanup
> > >     
> > >     Make x86_32 use the same tlb code as 64bit.  The 64bit code uses
> > >     multiple IPI vectors for tlb shootdown to reduce contention.  This
> > >     patch makes x86_32 allocate the same 8 IPIs as x86_64 and share the
> > >     code paths.
> > >     
> > >     Note that the usage of asmlinkage is inconsistent for x86_32 and 64
> > >     and calls for further cleanup.  This has been noted with a FIXME
> > >     comment in tlb_64.c.
> > >     
> > >     Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > I can easily hit this bug at this commit, but I ran for a week on the 
> > > commit before it. Thus I'm assuming this is the bug (but I'm not 100% 
> > > sure).
> > 
> > Drat, why does it have to be mine?  ;-)
> > 
> > Joke aside, thank you very much for bisecting it.
> > 
> > ...
> > >> [13288.222084] EIP: 0060:[<c0110821>] EFLAGS: 00000002 CPU: 0
> > >> [13288.222084] EIP is at default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x53/0x92
> 
> Is this one perhaps fixed by b04e6373d694 ("x86: don't call 
> '->send_IPI_mask()' with an empty mask")
> 
> It sounds a _lot_ like that bug. Older dual-cpu x86 box, and APIC getting 
> confused by the occasional empty CPU mask, and then subsequent IPI's will 
> hang.

I'll update my box to that kernel and see what happens and let you know.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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