Re: PROBLEM: 3.0-rc kernels unbootable since -rc3

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 01:15:08PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hmmm...  Does the stall repeat about every 3.5 minutes after the first stall?
> > 
> > Starting Configure read-only root support...
> > [   81.335070] INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0} (detected by 3, t=60002 jiffies)
> > [   81.335091] sending NMI to all CPUs:
> > [  261.367071] INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0} (detected by 3, t=240034 jiffies)
> > [  261.367092] sending NMI to all CPUs:
> > [  441.399066] INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0} (detected by 3, t=420066 jiffies)
> > [  441.399089] sending NMI to all CPUs:
> 
> OK, then the likely cause is something hanging onto the CPU.  Do the later
> stalls also show stack traces?  If so, what shows up?

I don't really get any stack traces from the guest. Not sure why it does
not print them out (probably b/c the NMI functionality is not accessible
somehow?). I get the stack traces using a 'xenctx' tool and this is what
I get from the guest before the stall, and after the stall:

20:45:56 # 12 :/mnt/tmp/FC15-32/ 
/usr/lib64/xen/bin/xenctx 29 -s System.map-3.0.0-rc6-disabled-options+ -a 2
cs:eip: 0061:c042d0f5 task_waking_fair+0x14 
flags: 00001286 i s nz p
ss:esp: 0069:e94cff0c
eax: c18dbed0   ebx: ffffffff   ecx: fff00000   edx: c14a10c0
esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: e94cff18
 ds:     007b    es:     007b    fs:     00d8    gs:     00e0

cr0: 8005003b
cr2: b7743000
cr3: 97348001
cr4: 00000660

dr0: 00000000
dr1: 00000000
dr2: 00000000
dr3: 00000000
dr6: ffff0ff0
dr7: 00000400
Code (instr addr c042d0f5)
c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 3e 8d 74 26 00 8b 90 58 01 00 00 8b 7a 1c <8b> 72 20 8b 5a 18 8b 4a 14 39 f3 


Stack:
 c18dbed0 00000003 00000002 e94cff38 c0439a45 c18d00c0 c18dc2c0 00000000
 e8bd1ec4 e8bd1ef8 00000003 e94cff40 c0439b0c e94cff64 c042d4db 00000000
 e8bd1f04 00000001 00000001 e8bd1f00 e8bd0200 e8bd1efc e94cff80 c042ea69
 00000000 00000000 e8bd1ef4 ea9c4918 c0a43a80 e94cff88 c0455e14 e94cffb4

Call Trace:
  [<c042d0f5>] task_waking_fair+0x14  <--
  [<c0439a45>] try_to_wake_up+0xb2 
  [<c0439b0c>] default_wake_function+0x10 
  [<c042d4db>] __wake_up_common+0x3b 
  [<c042ea69>] complete+0x3e 
  [<c0455e14>] wakeme_after_rcu+0x10 
  [<c048fd26>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x172 
  [<c048fe14>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x1e 
  [<c044567d>] __do_softirq+0xa2