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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Eran Liberty <liberty@extricom.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:32 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219110692.8062.0.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A9901B.1080900@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:07 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Eran Liberty wrote:
> > After compiling a kernel with ftrace I started to experience all sorts 
> > of crashes.
> 
> Just to make sure...
> 
> ftrace enables markers too, and RCU has tracing with the markers. This 
> may not be the problem, but I just want to eliminate as many variables 
> as possible.
> Could you disable ftrace, but keep the markers on too.  Also, could you 
> enable ftrace again and turn on the FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST.

I spent some time last week tracking one of those crashes and it appears
that we are getting corruption of some of the non-volatile registers.

So far, I found out that it -seems- to be coming from stack frame
corruption during a timer interrupt.

I haven't had a chance to dig further yet.

Cheers,
Ben.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-18 14:18 2.6.24-rc4: pci_remove_bus_device() => pci_scan_child_bus() => pci_bus_add_devices bug? Eran Liberty
2008-07-20 10:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.24-rc4] PCI: refuse to re-add a device to a bus upon pci_scan_child_bus() Eran Liberty
2008-07-20 16:48   ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-21 19:18 ` [PATCH 2.6.26] " Eran Liberty
2008-07-21 19:49   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-22  8:21     ` eran liberty
2008-07-22 11:49       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-22 13:08         ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-22 13:14         ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-22 14:13           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-22 15:25             ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-22 16:52               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-22 17:41                 ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-22 18:11                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-23 18:31                     ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-27 11:01                       ` Eran Liberty
2008-07-27 15:08                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-18  8:08 ` ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3) Eran Liberty
2008-08-18 15:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 15:47     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-18 16:12       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 17:04         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-18 17:21       ` Scott Wood
2008-08-18 18:27         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:29           ` Scott Wood
2008-08-19  1:53           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19  2:28             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19  2:39               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19  2:41                 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19  2:47                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19  3:32                     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19  3:36                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19  4:00                         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 16:47                     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 17:34                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 21:08                         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20  9:40                           ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-19 21:47                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 23:58                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-20  1:17                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19  2:56                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19  3:12                   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19  4:17                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20  7:18                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 13:14                         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 13:19                           ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 13:36                             ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 13:43                               ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 14:02                                 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 14:55                                   ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-20 15:23                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 18:23                                     ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 18:33                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 15:27                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 21:37                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 14:16                           ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 14:22                             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 14:50                               ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-15 16:30                                 ` [PATCH 2.6.26] SERIAL DRIVER: Handle Multiple consecutive sysrq from the serial Eran Liberty
2008-09-17 23:46                                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-18  6:58                                     ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 21:36                           ` ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 21:44                             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:47         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:56           ` Scott Wood
2008-08-18 19:28             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:25     ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-18 18:41       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19  1:54         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19  9:56         ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 13:02           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 21:46             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-18 18:50       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 12:09         ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 13:05           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 14:21             ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 14:42               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 20:15           ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 11:18             ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 13:12               ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19  1:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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