Re: BUG: spinlock lockup on task_rq_lock in 2.6.33

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 17:17:55 EST


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:08:50AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Dave,
>
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I just locked up a machine with the following trace:
> >
> > [ 5247.149256] BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#1, dd/7018, ffff8800059d4380
> > [ 5247.150009] BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, dd/6211, ffff8800059d4380
> > [ 5247.150009] Pid: 6211, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.33-dgc #86
> > [ 5247.150009] Call Trace:
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff8140ad40>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x160/0x170
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff8170fec6>] _raw_spin_lock+0x56/0x70
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff8103d092>] ? task_rq_lock+0x52/0x90
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff8103d092>] task_rq_lock+0x52/0x90
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff81044a70>] try_to_wake_up+0x40/0x3d0
> > [ 5247.150009] [<ffffffff81044e55>] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
>
> I can't say it for sure, but that might be related to a problem with
> TASK_WAKING which we discovered recently. The fix is in linus tree
> (commit 0970d2992dfd7d5ec2c787417cf464f01eeaf42a) and on the way to stable.

Thanks Thomas - I'll pull that commit in and see if it has any
effect on the problems I'm seeing.

Cheers,

Dave.
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