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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:14:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415041455.GA27928@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=h+NL+qqMDBNvOUmVDonORf4Qx2A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:55:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> >
> > Yep, I had to hit a buglet too. Looks like block layer, ->request_fn
> > (do_ide_request) called in IRQ disabled region. Process is blkid, i.e.
> > some udev helper. Kernel is -rc3 + Joerg's USB quirk fix which should be
> > unrelated.
> 
> I think this particular backtrace should be fixed by commit
> 6631e635c65d ("block: don't flush plugged IO on forced preemtion
> scheduling"), although even without preempt scheduling, I don't think
> it's at all ok to sleep inside __blk_run_queue.
> 
> Jens? Even from a _regular_ schedule, it would not be ok if we end up
> sleeping - we're caching things like the request-queue, and we have
> preempt_disable() inside the scheduler for a very good reason.

Jens already has a fix in his tree to always offload the block I/O
submission to blockd for this case.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12  0:40 Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12  9:02 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-12 14:15   ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-12 18:44     ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13  1:27       ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13  6:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-13 17:21         ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 18:39           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 19:26             ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 18:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 19:24             ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 19:14           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 19:34             ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 20:48               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 20:54                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 21:23                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 23:39                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14  0:10                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-14  2:03                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14  2:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14  2:27                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14  2:33                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14  2:33                             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14  4:03                             ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-14  9:36                               ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14  8:09                             ` Alan Cox
2011-04-14  8:09                               ` Alan Cox
2011-04-15 13:11                             ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 13:16                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-15 14:33                                 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 16:11                                   ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15 15:46                                 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 16:11                                   ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-16 16:35                                     ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 16:35                                       ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 18:54                                       ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-16 18:54                                         ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-17 14:09                                         ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-18  1:12                                           ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 15:23                                           ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:23                                             ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:29                                             ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 15:33                                               ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:59                                                 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 16:35                                                   ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15 14:04                               ` Andreas Herrmann
2011-04-15 14:28                                 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:16                               ` Alexandre Demers
2011-04-15 14:27                                 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:27                                   ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 18:59                                   ` Alexandre Demers
2011-04-15 19:06                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-15 19:18                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-15 20:22                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-16 12:01                                         ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:01                                           ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:00                                       ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:21                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-16 12:21                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-16  0:03                               ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it tip-bot for Joerg Roedel
2011-05-06 21:17                           ` Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 21:50                 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 21:59                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 22:11                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 22:01                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 22:22                     ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 22:31                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14  8:59                         ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 19:48             ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-14  1:58             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14  1:58               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14  2:07               ` Dave Airlie
2011-04-14  6:10                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14  8:56               ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14  9:07                 ` Dave Airlie
2011-04-14  9:11                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-14 14:31                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 14:28                 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-14 21:09                   ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14 21:34                     ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15  6:50                       ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:49                       ` Andreas Herrmann
2011-04-15  8:26                     ` Michel Dänzer
2011-04-15  8:26                       ` Michel Dänzer
2011-04-15  8:55                       ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-12 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-12 19:21   ` Dave Jones
2011-04-12 19:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 20:13       ` Dave Jones
2011-04-14  8:20     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-04-18 22:57       ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-18 23:02         ` Dave Jones
2011-04-18 23:14           ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-19 11:42           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-19  8:23         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-04-19  8:37           ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-19  9:55           ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-12 20:20   ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-12 20:27     ` Karel Zak
2011-04-12 20:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 20:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-04-14 20:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-15  4:14     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-20 20:12       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-04-12 21:21 Alexandre Demers
2011-04-13  4:32 George Spelvin
2011-04-13 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 18:28   ` Pavel Machek

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