Oops while running systemtap on the p6 machine against the kernel version 2.6.36-rc7-git3

[divya]

On Friday 15 October 2010 02:16 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> divya<dipraksh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>  writes:
>
>    
>> While running systemtap tests on the p6 machine , against the kernel
>> version 2.6.36-rc7-git3 Oops occured , here are the call trace
>>      
> Did the oops happen during a systemtap module startup vs. operation
> vs. shutdown?  stap -V version string?
>
>    
>>   BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#6, stapio/20398
>> -- 0:conmux-control -- time-stamp -- Oct/13/10  2:49:18 --res
>>   lock: c000000000fcfa18, .magic: 00000000, .owner:<none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
>> Call Trace:
>> [c0000001effbfab0] [c000000000011934] .show_stack+0x6c/0x16c (unreliable)
>> [c0000001effbfb60] [c0000000002c9274] .spin_bug+0xb0/0xd4
>> [c0000001effbfbf0] [c0000000002c953c] .do_raw_spin_lock+0x48/0x184
>> [c0000001effbfc90] [c00000000054af78] ._raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x24
>> [c0000001effbfd00] [d000000003015908] .__stp_time_timer_callback+0x94/0x13c [stap_75ce6f84d34f8665c9a6b8e27fb9ea95_818798]
>> [...]
>> kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:681!
>> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
>> SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries
>> [...]
>> [c0000001effbfc50] [c0000001effbfd00] 0xc0000001effbfd00 (unreliable)
>> [c0000001effbfd00] [d00000000301597c] .__stp_time_timer_callback+0x108/0x13c [stap_75ce6f84d34f8665c9a6b8e27fb9ea95_818798]
>> [c0000001effbfdc0] [c00000000009c2f8] .run_timer_softirq+0x1d8/0x2a8
>>      
>
> We have had occasional problems in the past with something like this:
> http://sourceware.org/PR10651, but it never was tracked down to a
> systemtap bug per se, as opposed to suspicions that the kernel was not
> satisfying one of its guarantees w.r.t. del_timer_sync().
>
> - FChE
>    
Sorry Frank for the late reply
The Oops occured during the execution of systemtap tests.

stap version being :
  Snapshot: 89e2abb

Attached are the systemtap test execution logs

Thanks
Divya



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