lockdep badness
Nathan Lynch
ntl at pobox.com
Fri Jul 25 09:00:19 EST 2008
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:23 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > I'm seeing warnings from the lockdep code itself in recent kernels on
> > a Power6 blade (v2.6.26 and benh's -next branch).
> >
> > Something to do with powerpc's "lazy" interrupt-disabling, perhaps?
> >
> > A couple of stack traces below, the first is from benh's tree, the
> > second is from 2.6.26. The lockdep self-tests all pass at boot.
>
> Interesting.
>
> > [c0000000e787bc20] [c0000000e787bc70] 0xc0000000e787bc70 (unreliable)
> > [c0000000e787bca0] [c0000000000b5ac8] .lock_release+0x7c/0x208
> > [c0000000e787bd50] [c0000000005e12c0] ._spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x34/0x94
> > [c0000000e787bde0] [c00000000004d648] .pSeries_log_error+0x380/0x3f0
> > [c0000000e787bef0] [c00000000004d8e4] .rtasd+0x98/0x100
> > [c0000000e787bf90] [c000000000029d20] .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68
> > Instruction dump:
>
> This one is one I haven't managed to reproduce and didn't quite find out
> what could be causing it, but it was already reported by Badari (and in
> fact is referenced as a regression in Rafael list).
Okay.
> > Call Trace:
> > [c00000000fffbb10] [c00000000fffbbb0] 0xc00000000fffbbb0 (unreliable)
> > [c00000000fffbbb0] [c0000000005d8824] ._spin_unlock_irq+0x40/0x68
> > [c00000000fffbc40] [c000000000426708] .ipr_ioa_reset_done+0x218/0x2ac
> > [c00000000fffbd00] [c00000000041bdb8] .ipr_reset_ioa_job+0xc8/0xf4
> > [c00000000fffbd90] [c000000000424ffc] .ipr_isr+0x280/0x628
> > [c00000000fffbe50] [c0000000000ccc70] .handle_IRQ_event+0x58/0xd4
> > [c00000000fffbef0] [c0000000000cef4c] .handle_fasteoi_irq+0x128/0x1c8
> > [c00000000fffbf90] [c000000000029918] .call_handle_irq+0x1c/0x2c
> > [c000000000a63a20] [c00000000000d9cc] .do_IRQ+0x138/0x248
> > [c000000000a63ad0] [c000000000004ca8] hardware_interrupt_entry+0x28/0x2c
> > --- Exception: 501 at .raw_local_irq_restore+0x8c/0xa4
> > LR = .cpu_idle+0x140/0x210
> > [c000000000a63e60] [c0000000005da07c] .rest_init+0x7c/0x98
> > [c000000000a63ee0] [c000000000866f10] .start_kernel+0x488/0x4b0
> > [c000000000a63f90] [c000000000008584] .start_here_common+0x4c/0xc8
> > Instruction dump:
>
> This one is new to me. I will have a look. What machine is this ?
Power6 blade - JS22 (four cores), with single disk attached via IPR,
HEA for network... nothing exotic, I guess. Not sure how recreatable
the ipr trace is, I've only seen it once (and with 2.6.26 only). The
rtasd trace is pretty consistent on powerpc/next.
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