From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933909AbXDATD0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:03:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933908AbXDATD0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:03:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:49286 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933909AbXDATDZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:03:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:03:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michal Piotrowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , john stultz , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm3 Message-Id: <20070401120305.932a493b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <460FD70C.1040602@googlemail.com> References: <20070330010559.2a232d9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <460FD70C.1040602@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:00:12 +0200 Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Andrew Morton napisaƂ(a): > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm3/ > > > > BUG: at /mnt/md0/devel/linux-mm/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:571 native_smp_call_function_mask() > [] dump_trace+0x63/0x1eb > [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 > [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > [] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 > [] native_smp_call_function_mask+0x57/0x14b > [] smp_call_function+0x1e/0x22 > [] on_each_cpu+0x2a/0x73 > [] clock_was_set+0x1b/0x1d > [] timekeeping_resume+0xb5/0xbb > [] __sysdev_resume+0x17/0x5d > [] sysdev_resume+0x19/0x4b > [] device_power_up+0xb/0x12 > [] swsusp_suspend+0x55/0x63 > [] pm_suspend_disk+0x163/0x28f > [] enter_state+0x54/0x1d5 > [] state_store+0x86/0x9c > [] subsys_attr_store+0x23/0x2b > [] sysfs_write_file+0xc1/0xe9 > [] vfs_write+0xd1/0x15a > [] sys_write+0x3d/0x72 > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > [] 0xb7f9b410 We're calling smp_call_function() with local interrupts disabled, which is deadlockable. This, I expect, is because swsusp_suspend() optimistically tries to run everything with local interrupts disabled. I don't know why this has suddenly started happening - timekeeping_resume()->clock_was_set()->on_each_cpu() has been there for a while. Doesn't mainline do the same thing? Not sure what to do about this. The best fix would be to teach swsusp to not be so optmistic: resume functions are called with local irqs _enabled_ - that's part of their call environment. swsusp tries to call them with local irqs disabled and bad things happen.