Re: 2.6.33.5 rt23: machine lockup (nfs/autofs related?)

[john stultz]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:19 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> We are having problems with 2.6.33.5+rt23, at least in our configuration
> while accessing an nfs automounted directory. This causes a complete
> machine lockup (press reset to exit as the only option). 
> 
> I simply use the Nautilus file manager (in Fedora 12) to navigate to an
> autofs mounted directory and the process monitor goes to 100% on one
> core (or maybe two), the mouse jerks a bit and the whole thing goes
> catatonic almost immediately. 
> 
> I get this in any open terminal at the time of the crash:
> 
> --------
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:last sysfs
> file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:Process nautilus (pid: 2874, ti=f0204000 task=f17dd1f0
> task.ti=f0204000)
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:Stack:
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:Call Trace:
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:Code: 7b 08 00 89 45 b8 75 12 8d 43 04 89 43 04 89 43 08 8d 43
> 0c 89 43 0c 89 43 10 8b 43 14 64 8b 15 2c d1 a5 c0 83 e0 fc 39 c2 75 04
> <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 3a 81 ff 08 01 00 00 74 0a 83 ff 02 b8 04 00 00 
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Jul  8 10:13:54 ...
>  kernel:EIP: [<c0792c0f>] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x43/0x1bb SS:ESP
> 0068:f0205cbc
> --------
> 
> And that's it... nothing else in the logs. 

Hrm. Not too much to go on there, but thanks for the report.


> For now we are booting into the normal Fedora kernel (this is on Fedora
> 12) as this makes the rt kernel not usable in our setup. 
> 
> Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help debug this...

Had you done any testing with earlier 2.6.33-rt kernels where this
didn't occur? If so what version?

thanks
-john


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