Re: frequent softlockups with 3.10rc6.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jun 24 2013 - 10:52:37 EST


On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 16:39 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/23, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 06:04:52PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > > Could you please do the following:
> > >
> > > 1. # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> > > # echo 0 >> options/function-trace
> > > # echo preemptirqsoff >> current_tracer
> >
> > dammit.
> >
> > WARNING: at include/linux/list.h:385 rb_head_page_deactivate.isra.39+0x61/0x80()
>
> Hmmm. which kernel do use use?
>
> 380 #define list_for_each(pos, head) \
> 381 for (pos = (head)->next; pos != (head); pos = pos->next)
> 382
> 383 /**
> 384 * __list_for_each - iterate over a list
> 385 * @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
> 386 * @head: the head for your list.
> 387 *
> 388 * This variant doesn't differ from list_for_each() any more.
> 389 * We don't do prefetching in either case.
> 390 */
> 391 #define __list_for_each(pos, head) \
> 392 for (pos = (head)->next; pos != (head); pos = pos->next)
> 393
> 394 /**
> 395 * list_for_each_prev - iterate over a list backwards
> 396 * @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
> 397 * @head: the head for your list.
> 398 */
> 399 #define list_for_each_prev(pos, head) \
> 400 for (pos = (head)->prev; pos != (head); pos = pos->prev)
>
> On 9e895ace5d8 (Linux 3.10-rc7).

Right, and on 3.10-rc6:

382
383 /**
384 * __list_for_each - iterate over a list
385 * @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
386 * @head: the head for your list.
387 *
388 * This variant doesn't differ from list_for_each() any more.
389 * We don't do prefetching in either case.
390 */
391 #define __list_for_each(pos, head) \
392 for (pos = (head)->next; pos != (head); pos = pos->next)
393


>
> > check_list_nodes corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff88023b8a1a08), but was 00ffff88023b8a1a. (next=ffff880243288001).
>
> Can't find "check_list_nodes" in lib/list_debug.c or elsewhere...
>
> > [<ffffffff816e467d>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
> > [<ffffffff8104a0c1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
> > [<ffffffff8104a12c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
> > [<ffffffff81112c61>] rb_head_page_deactivate.isra.39+0x61/0x80
>
> How? rb_list_head_clear() just modifies list->next directly.
>
> > hopefully despite that it'll actually function as intended.
>
> Yes ;)

I'm curious to what happened.

-- Steve


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