Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel

[Badari Pulavarty]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > My 2-cpu EM64T machine started showing this problem again on 2.6.14.
> > > > On some reboots, X seems to spin in the kernel forever.
> > > >
> > > > sysrq-t output shows nothing.
> > > >
> > > > X             R  running task       0  3607   3589          3903
> > > > (L-TLB)
> > > >
> > > > top shows:
> > > > 3607 root      25   0     0    0    0 R 99.1  0.0 262:04.69 X
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So, I wrote a module to do smp_call_function() on all CPUs
> > > > to show stacks on them. CPU0 seems to be spinning in exit_mmap().
> > > > I did this multiple times to collect stacks few times.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a known issue ?
> > >
> > > Nope.  Maybe your vma list has a loop in it, in remove_vma()?  slab
> > > debugging would detect that, due to the repeated
> > > kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> >
> > I compiled the kernel with slab debug and rebooted the machine.
> > X seems to be spinning again. But this time, it shows completely
> > different routines  (and seems to be switching CPUs) :(
> > Something weird is happening on my machine..
> >
> > top:
> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 3600 root      25   0     0    0    0 R 99.9  0.0   8:29.18 X
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Then I tried killing it and ran into..
> >
> > CPU0:
> > ffffffff8053c750 0000000000000000 00000000000018ff ffff81011c9a4230
> >       ffff81011c9a4000 ffffffff8053c788 ffffffff8026de8f
> > ffffffff8053c7a8
> >       ffffffff80119591 ffffffff8053c7a8
> > Call Trace: <IRQ> <ffffffff8026de8f>{showacpu+47}
> > <ffffffff80119591>{smp_call_function_interrupt+81}
> >       <ffffffff8010e968>{call_function_interrupt+132}  <EOI>
> > <ffffffff880fa225>{:radeon:radeon_do_wait_for_idle+117}
> >       <ffffffff880fa236>{:radeon:radeon_do_wait_for_idle+134}
> >       <ffffffff880fa590>{:radeon:radeon_do_cp_idle+336}
> > <ffffffff880fc215>{:radeon:radeon_do_release+85}
> >       <ffffffff88104369>{:radeon:radeon_driver_pretakedown+9}
> >       <ffffffff802783aa>{drm_takedown+74}
>
>
> ah-hah.  We've had machines stuck in radeon_do_wait_for_idle() before.  In
> fact, my workstation was doing it a year or two back.
>
> Are you able to identify the most recent kernel which didn't do this?

I got this machine recently. 2.6.14-rc kernels are the first ones I 
tried on this box and they have been failing :(

Only known good kernel I had so far was RHEL4 (2.6.9 base).

Thanks,
Badari


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