Re: rcu: frequent rcu lockups

[Sasha Levin]

On 03/15/2015 04:43 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> But I did find a bug that would result in the other warnings, and could
> also result in too-short grace periods, which could in turn result in
> arbitrarily arbitrary misbehavior.  The patch below, which is also on
> its way into -next, should fix this.  Please let me know how it does
> for you.

I've stopped seeing the warnings I've previously reported, but started
seeing a new one:

[  788.564596] WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 9711 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:2201 rcu_report_qs_rnp+0x42e/0x5a0()
[  788.568123] Modules linked in:
[  788.568123] CPU: 12 PID: 9711 Comm: trinity-main Not tainted 4.0.0-rc3-next-20150313-sasha-00041-g83a3dc8-dirty #2078
[  788.568123]  ffff8803a1ba0000 00000000400df16a ffff880442807cc8 ffffffffb1ab01ca
[  788.568123]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff880442807d18 ffffffffa71e261a
[  788.568123]  dffffc0000000000 ffffffffa733d2ee ffff880442807d28 ffffffffb4724000
[  788.568123] Call Trace:
[  788.568123] <IRQ> dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
[  788.568123] warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:447)
[  788.568123] ? rcu_report_qs_rnp (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2201 (discriminator 3))
[  788.568123] warn_slowpath_null (kernel/panic.c:481)
[  788.568123] rcu_report_qs_rnp (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2201 (discriminator 3))
[  788.568123] rcu_process_callbacks (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2302 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2338 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2824 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857)
[  788.568123] __do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:273 include/linux/jump_label.h:114 include/trace/events/irq.h:126 kernel/softirq.c:274)
[  788.568123] irq_exit (kernel/softirq.c:350 kernel/softirq.c:391)
[  788.568123] smp_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:918)
[  788.568123] apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:920)
[  788.568123] <EOI> ? mark_held_locks (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2525)
[  788.568123] finish_task_switch (kernel/sched/core.c:2231)
[  788.568123] __schedule (kernel/sched/core.c:2337 kernel/sched/core.c:2795)
[  788.568123] schedule (./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:311 (discriminator 1) kernel/sched/core.c:2824 (discriminator 1))
[  788.568123] schedule_preempt_disabled (kernel/sched/core.c:2856)
[  788.568123] mutex_lock_nested (kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 kernel/locking/mutex.c:623)
[  788.568123] kernfs_iop_permission (fs/kernfs/inode.c:366)
[  788.568123] __inode_permission (fs/namei.c:374 fs/namei.c:408)
[  788.568123] inode_permission (fs/namei.c:460)
[  788.568123] link_path_walk (fs/namei.c:1520 fs/namei.c:1782)
[  788.568123] path_init (fs/namei.c:1947)
[  788.568123] path_lookupat (fs/namei.c:1989)
[  788.568123] filename_lookup (fs/namei.c:2025)
[  788.568123] user_path_at_empty (fs/namei.c:2189)
[  788.568123] user_path_at (fs/namei.c:2200)
[  788.568123] vfs_fstatat (fs/stat.c:106)
[  788.568123] SYSC_newfstatat (fs/stat.c:298)
[  788.568123] SyS_newfstatat (fs/stat.c:291)
[  788.568123] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:347)


Thanks,
Sasha
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