Re: [tip:sched/locking] sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 14:41:08 EST


On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 19:20 +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
> > On 01.06.2011 18:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:58 +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
> > >> git bisect blames this commit for a problem I have with v3.0-rc1:
> > >> If I printk large amounts of data, the machine locks up.
> > >> As the commit does not revert cleanly on top of 3.0, I haven't been
> > >> able to double check.
> > >> The test I use is simple, just add something like
> > >>
> > >> for (i=0; i< 10000; ++i) printk("test %d\n", i);
> > >>
> > >> and trigger it, in most cases I can see the first 10 printks before
> > >> I have to power cycle the machine (sysrq-b does not work anymore).
> > >> Attached my .config.
> > >
> > > I've made me a module that does the above, I've also changed my .config
> > > to match yours (smp=y, sched-cgroup=y, autogroup=n, preempt=n, no_hz=y),
> > > but sadly I cannot reproduce, I get all 10k prints on my serial line.
> > >
> > > Even without serial line it works (somehow booting without visible
> > > console is scary as hell :)
> > >
> > > Which makes me ask, how are you observing your console?
> > >
> >
> > They don't go out to the serial line, I only observe them with a
> > tail -f on messages. Default log level doesn't go the console here.
>
> Right ok, so I used your exact .config, added a few drivers needed for
> my hardware and indeed, it doesn't even finish booting and gets stuck
> someplace.
>
> Sadly it looks like even the NMI watchdog is dead,.. /me goes try and
> make sense of this.

Sadly both 0122ec5b02f766c355b3168df53a6c038a24fa0d^1 and
0122ec5b02f766c355b3168df53a6c038a24fa0d itself boot just fine and run
the test module without problems.

I will have to re-bisect this.

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