Greetings,

Stress testing, looking to trigger RCU stalls, I've managed to find a
way to repeatably create fireworks.  (got RCU stall, see attached)

1. download ltp-full-20100630.  Needs to be this version because of
testcase bustage in earlier versions, and must be built with gcc > 4.3,
else testcases will segfault due to a gcc bug. 

2. apply patchlet so you can run testcases/realtime/perf/latency/run.sh
at all.

--- pthread_cond_many.c.org	2010-07-05 09:05:59.000000000 +0200
+++ pthread_cond_many.c	2010-07-04 12:12:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ void usage(void)
 
 int parse_args(int c, char *v)
 {
-	int handled;
+	int handled = 1;
         switch (c) {
 		case 'h':
 			usage();

3. add --realtime for no particular reason.

--- run.sh.org	2010-07-06 15:54:58.000000000 +0200
+++ run.sh	2010-07-06 16:37:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ make
 # process to run realtime.  The remainder of the processes (if any)
 # will run non-realtime in any case.
 
-nthread=5000
+nthread=500
 iter=400
 nproc=5
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ i=0
 i=1
 while test $i -lt $nproc
 do
-        ./pthread_cond_many --broadcast -i $iter -n $nthread > $nthread.$iter.$nproc.$i.out &
+        ./pthread_cond_many --realtime --broadcast -i $iter -n $nthread > $nthread.$iter.$nproc.$i.out &
         i=`expr $i + 1`
 done
 wait

4. run it.

What happens here is we hit WARN_ON(pendowner->pi_blocked_on != waiter),
this does not make it to consoles (poking sysrq-foo doesn't either).
Next comes WARN_ON(!pendowner->pi_blocked_on), followed by the NULL
explosion, which does make it to consoles.

With explosion avoidance, I also see pendowner->pi_blocked_on->task ==
NULL at times, but that, as !pendowner->pi_blocked_on, seems to be
fallout.  The start of bad juju is always pi_blocked_on != waiter.

[  141.609268] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
[  141.609268] IP: [<ffffffff8106856d>] wakeup_next_waiter+0x12c/0x177
[  141.609268] PGD 20e174067 PUD 20e253067 PMD 0 
[  141.609268] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
[  141.609268] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
[  141.609268] CPU 0 
[  141.609268] Pid: 8154, comm: pthread_cond_ma Tainted: G        W  2.6.33.6-rt23 #12 MS-7502/MS-7502
[  141.609268] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8106856d>]  [<ffffffff8106856d>] wakeup_next_waiter+0x12c/0x177
[  141.609268] RSP: 0018:ffff88020e3cdd78  EFLAGS: 00010097
[  141.609268] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801e8eba5c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  141.609268] RDX: ffff880028200000 RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: 0000000000000009
[  141.609268] RBP: ffff88020e3cdda8 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
[  141.609268] R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81659068
[  141.609268] R13: ffff8801e8ebdb58 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8801e8ebac08
[  141.609268] FS:  00007f664d539700(0000) GS:ffff880028200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  141.609268] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  141.609268] CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 0000000214266000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[  141.609268] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  141.609268] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  141.609268] Process pthread_cond_ma (pid: 8154, threadinfo ffff88020e3cc000, task ffff88020e2a4700)
[  141.609268] Stack:
[  141.609268]  0000000000000000 ffffffff81659068 0000000000000202 0000000000000000
[  141.609268] <0> 0000000000000000 0000000080001fda ffff88020e3cddc8 ffffffff812fec48
[  141.609268] <0> ffffffff81659068 0000000000606300 ffff88020e3cddd8 ffffffff812ff1b9
[  141.609268] Call Trace:
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff812fec48>] rt_spin_lock_slowunlock+0x43/0x61
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff812ff1b9>] rt_spin_unlock+0x46/0x48
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81067d7f>] do_futex+0x83c/0x935
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff810c26ce>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x6de/0x6f1
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81067e36>] ? do_futex+0x8f3/0x935
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81067fba>] sys_futex+0x142/0x154
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81020eb0>] ? do_page_fault+0x23e/0x28e
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81004aa7>] ? math_state_restore+0x3d/0x3f
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81004b08>] ? do_device_not_available+0xe/0x12
[  141.609268]  [<ffffffff81002c5b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  141.609268] Code: c7 09 6d 41 81 e8 ac 34 fd ff 4c 39 ab 70 06 00 00 74 11 be 47 02 00 00 48 c7 c7 09 6d 41 81 e8 92 34 fd ff 48 8b 83 70 06 00 00 <4c> 39 60 58 74 11 be 48 02 00 00 48 c7 c7 09 6d 41 81 e8 74 34 
[  141.609268] RIP  [<ffffffff8106856d>] wakeup_next_waiter+0x12c/0x177
[  141.609268]  RSP <ffff88020e3cdd78>
[  141.609268] CR2: 0000000000000058
[  141.609268] ---[ end trace 58805b944e6f93ce ]---
[  141.609268] note: pthread_cond_ma[8154] exited with preempt_count 2

(5. eyeball locks.. -> zzzzt -> report -> eyeball..)

	-Mike