Re: [4.1.3-rt8] [report][cpuhotplug] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, sh/137

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Oct 12 2015 - 04:17:07 EST


On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> I can constantly see below error report with 4.1 RT-kernel on TI ARM dra7-evm
> if I'm trying to unplug cpu1:
>
> [ 57.737589] CPU1: shutdown
> [ 57.767537] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, sh/137
> [ 57.767546] lock: 0xee994730, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0

> It looks like this backtrace was introduces by
>
> commit 91df05da13a6c6c358e71182e80f19f3c48d1615
> net: Use skbufhead with raw lock
>
> I see the potential fix for this issue as below:
>
> index 4969c0d..f8c23de 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -7217,7 +7217,7 @@ static int dev_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
> netif_rx_ni(skb);
> input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
> }
> - while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {
> + while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {

Your patch is white space damaged ....

> netif_rx_ni(skb);
> input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
> }
>
> input_pkt_queue is per-cpu queue and at this moment cpu is dead already,
> so no one should touch it. But I'm not sure if my assumption is correct.

It is. Picking it up for the next release

Thanks,

tglx
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