spinlock problem

Wed Sep 17 23:26:08 EST 2008

Caner Altinbasak ha scritto:
> If I do not compile with soft lockup debug option checked, I do not see the
> debug messages but system freezes.
> 
> It is the same in both case, it just freezes after these messages. Soft lock
> debug option only shows me call trace, instruction dump when soft lock up
> happens.
> 
> There is a strange thing in call trace. I tried to follow the code, but call
> trace is meaningless, most of those functions are not calling the one in
> next stack. It seems just like an recursive function creating a buffer
> overflow. 

I think they are the interrupt nested paths.

But I think, the main reason is, handle_IRQ_event function does
> not handle the IRQ, so it just enters the IRQ over and over? Any ideas? Am I
> wrong? Can you suggest me a path to follow?
> 

What about the function cw_pic_unmask_irq_183? Have you looked at it?

> 
> 2008/9/17 Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli at coritel.it>
> 
>> Oops, I meant soft lockup...
>>
>> Marco Stornelli ha scritto:
>>> But does the test work? Maybe the kernel is configured with softlook
>>> check (see the kernel menu under kernel hacking), try to disable it and
>>> recompile. However there's something strange...
>>>
>>> Caner Altinbasak ha scritto:
>>>> Hi!
>>>> I am using a Curtiss Wright DY4-183 board with PPC7447 CPU. I've a pci
>>>> graphics card with a M9 GPU on it. There is a transparent bridge between
>> the
>>>> GPU and my PCI bus. My problem a trouble with radeon_dri driver. I want
>> to
>>>> run a miniglx application to see how the graphics performance is but I
>> am
>>>> having the following error. I think there is a problem with unhandled
>>>> interrupts! Have an idea?
>>>>
>>>> -bash-3.2# ./sample_server &
>>>> [1] 1082
>>>> -bash-3.2# [miniglx] probed chipset 0x4c66
>>>> got MMIOAddress 0x1801e000 offset 67108864
>>>> shared virtual width is 1024
>>>> [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x61036000
>>>> [drm] mapped SAREA 0x61036000 to 0x18026000, size 8192
>>>> [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x80000000
>>>> [drm] register handle = 0x70000000
>>>> [pci] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x62187000
>>>> [pci] ring handle = 0x62187000
>>>> [pci] ring read ptr handle = 0x62288000
>>>> [pci] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0x62289000
>>>> [pci] GART texture map handle = 0x62489000
>>>> Using 8 MB AGP aperture
>>>> Using 1 MB for the ring buffhStart = 1040, hEnd = 1136, hTotal = 1312
>>>> vStart = 769, vEnd = 772, vTotal = 800
>>>> h_total_disp = 0x7f00a3    hsync_strt_wid = 0x8c040d
>>>> v_total_disp = 0x2ff031f           vsync_strt_wid = 0x830300
>>>> pixclock = 12699
>>>> freq = 7874
>>>> freq = 7874, PLL min = 12000, PLL max = 35000
>>>> ref_div = 5, ref_clk = 2700, output_freq = 15748
>>>> ref_div = 5, ref_clk = 2700, output_freq = 15748
>>>> post div = 0x1
>>>> fb_div = 0x1d
>>>> ppll_div_3 = 0x1001d
>>>> er
>>>> Using 2 MB for BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
>>>> NIP: 40042044 LR: 40042140 CTR: 400185B4
>>>> REGS: 5e25bbb0 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (2.6.16.13.CWCEC.K)
>>>> MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 2490C142  XER: 20000000
>>>> TASK = 40aa78b0[1082] 'sample_server' THREAD: 5e25a000
>>>> NIP [40042044] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0xb8
>>>> LR [40042140] __do_IRQ+0x78/0x1a0
>>>> Call Trace:
>>>> [5E25BC60] [400188A8] cw_pic_unmask_irq_183+0x118/0x138 (unreliable)
>>>> [5E25BC80] [40042140] __do_IRQ+0x78/0x1a0
>>>> [5E25BCB0] [4000B1E4] do_IRQ+0x44/0x88
>>>> [5E25BCD0] [40004F1C] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14
>>>> [5E25BD90] [40049DDC] __alloc_pages+0x70/0x2a4
>>>> [5E25BDA0] [40042074] handle_IRQ_event+0x64/0xb8
>>>> [5E25BDC0] [40042140] __do_IRQ+0x78/0x1a0
>>>> [5E25BDF0] [4000B1E4] do_IRQ+0x44/0x88
>>>> [5E25BE10] [40004F1C] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14
>>>> [5E25BED0] [400244CC] __do_softirq+0x50/0x120
>>>> [5E25BF00] [40024614] do_softirq+0x78/0x80
>>>> [5E25BF10] [4002478C] irq_exit+0x60/0x78
>>>> [5E25BF20] [4000B1E8] do_IRQ+0x48/0x88
>>>> [5E25BF40] [40004F1C] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14
>>>> Instruction dump:
>>>> 9421ffe0 bf61000c 7cbf2b78 7c7b1b78 7c9d2378 90010024 80050004 74092000
>>>> 40820010 7c0000a6 60008000 7c000124 <3bc00000> 3b800000 48000010
>> 83ff0014
>>>> vertex/indirect buffers
>>>> Using 1 MB for AGP textures
>>>> Will use back buffer at offset 0x300000
>>>> Will use depth buffer at offset 0x600000
>>>> Will use 56320 kb for textures at offset 0x900000
>>>> [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers
>>>> [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16
>>>> [drm] Initialized kernel gart heap manager, 5111808
>>>> color tiling disabled
>>>> page flipping disabled
>>>> [miniglx] Setting mode: visible 1024x768 virtual 1024x768x32
>>>> [miniglx] Readback mode: visible 1024x768 virtual 1024x768x32
>>>> RADEONEngineRestore
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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> 

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