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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: percpu related boot crash on x86
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:31:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D37F2C9.8000906@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110119231116.GA3896@elte.hu>

On 1/20/11 1:11 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu>  wrote:
>
>> Btw., based on Peter's suggestion i tried the limit-bumping hack below - but it
>> did not help, the crash still triggers on 5%-10% of all randconfig bootups.
>
> I'm now running tests with MAXSMP forcibly disabled - and there are no crashes after
> 69 randconfig iteration. Before it would crash within 10 iterations.
>
> So it seems the MAXSMP sizing tests triggers a new percpu regression.

It needs CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to trigger. As the comment in 
vmap_debug_free_range() already says "it's going to be slow" I wonder if 
we could just hack around the problem by adding a

   if (!irqs_disabled())

guard around the debugging code to make vfree() always work with IRQs 
disabled.

			Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18 23:54 Linux 2.6.38-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2011-01-19  2:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-19  3:42   ` Justin Mattock
2011-01-19  3:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-19  4:05       ` Justin Mattock
2011-01-19  5:10       ` nobody
2011-01-19  5:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-19  5:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-19 18:07             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-01-19 18:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-21  3:23           ` tag&track [Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1] nobody
2011-01-21  8:24             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-01-23  8:13   ` Linux 2.6.38-rc1 Török Edwin
2011-01-19  7:39 ` Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-01-19  7:46   ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-19  7:55     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-01-19  7:49   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-01-19  8:12     ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-19  8:56       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-19  9:09         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20  2:08           ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-20  3:32             ` Lu, Hongjiu
2011-01-20 11:25             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 15:08               ` Anvin, H Peter
2011-01-21  7:18                 ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-21  7:55                   ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-21 15:28                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-21 15:37                     ` Lu, Hongjiu
2011-01-21 21:09                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-19  9:33         ` [tip:x86/urgent] Revert "x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils" tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20  4:59     ` Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot Alexandre Courbot
2011-01-19  8:39 ` PPS parport boot lockup: INFO: HARDIRQ-READ-safe -> HARDIRQ-READ-unsafe lock order detected Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 13:04   ` Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-21 14:44   ` Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-21 16:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-21 19:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-24 23:28         ` Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-24 23:46         ` [PATCH] pps: claim parallel port exclusively Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-25  0:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-24 15:00       ` PPS parport boot lockup: INFO: HARDIRQ-READ-safe -> HARDIRQ-READ-unsafe lock order detected Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-24 15:12   ` [PATCH] parport: make lockdep happy with waitlist_lock Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-24 15:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-24 15:33       ` Alexander Gordeev
2011-01-19 12:02 ` percpu related boot crash on x86 (was: Linux 2.6.38-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2011-01-19 12:44   ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-19 12:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-19 12:56     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-19 13:12       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-19 13:13       ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-19 20:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-19 23:11           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20  8:31             ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-01-20 10:47               ` percpu related boot crash on x86 Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-20 11:12                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-20 11:19                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:06   ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:07     ` [PATCH 2/2] smp: allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled " Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 20:22       ` [tip:core/urgent] smp: Allow " tip-bot for Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:11     ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: move early boot local IRQ enable/disable " Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-20 11:26         ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:30           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-20 11:38           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-20 12:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 12:20         ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 11:51     ` [PATCH " Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 20:21     ` [tip:core/urgent] lockdep: Move " tip-bot for Tejun Heo
2011-01-19 21:40 ` Linux 2.6.38-rc1 Alan Cox
2011-01-21 15:30   ` Aaro Koskinen

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