Re: mmotm 2010-07-19 - e1000e vs. pm_qos_update_request issues

[mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:07:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:35:25 -0400
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:38:09 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-07-19-16-37 has been uploaded to
> > > 
> > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > Throws a warning at boot:
> > 
> > [    1.786060] WARNING: at kernel/pm_qos_params.c:264 pm_qos_update_request+0x28/0x54()
> > [    1.786088] Hardware name: Latitude E6500
> > [    1.787045] pm_qos_update_request() called for unknown object
> > [    1.787966] Modules linked in:
> > [    1.788940] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-rc5-mmotm0719 #1
> > [    1.790035] Call Trace:
> > [    1.791121]  [<ffffffff81037335>] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98
> > [    1.792205]  [<ffffffff810373e1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
> > [    1.793279]  [<ffffffff81057c14>] pm_qos_update_request+0x28/0x54
> > [    1.794347]  [<ffffffff8134889e>] e1000_configure+0x421/0x459
> > [    1.795393]  [<ffffffff8134afbd>] e1000_open+0xbd/0x37c
> > [    1.796436]  [<ffffffff8105743a>] ? raw_notifier_call_chain+0xf/0x11
> > [    1.797491]  [<ffffffff8145f948>] __dev_open+0xae/0xe2
> > [    1.798547]  [<ffffffff8145f997>] dev_open+0x1b/0x49
> > [    1.799612]  [<ffffffff8146e36e>] netpoll_setup+0x84/0x259
> > [    1.800685]  [<ffffffff81b5037c>] init_netconsole+0xbc/0x21f
> > [    1.801744]  [<ffffffff81b5026c>] ? sir_wq_init+0x0/0x35
> > [    1.802793]  [<ffffffff81b502c0>] ? init_netconsole+0x0/0x21f
> > [    1.803845]  [<ffffffff810002ff>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12f
> > [    1.804885]  [<ffffffff81b2ccae>] kernel_init+0x138/0x1c2
> > [    1.805915]  [<ffffffff81003554>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> > [    1.806937]  [<ffffffff81590e00>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> > [    1.807955]  [<ffffffff81b2cb76>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1c2
> > [    1.808958]  [<ffffffff81003550>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> > [    1.809958] ---[ end trace 84b562a00a60539e ]---
> > 
> > Looks like a repeat of something I reported against -mmotm 2010-05-11, though a
> > WARNING rather than an outright crash - the traceback is pretty much identical.
> >  I have *no* idea why -rc3-mmotm0701 doesn't whinge similarly.
> > 
> 
> I don't recall you reporting that, sorry.
> 
> The warning was added by
> 
> : commit 82f682514a5df89ffb3890627eebf0897b7a84ec
> : Author:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
> : AuthorDate: Mon Jul 5 22:53:06 2010 +0200
> : Commit:     Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> : CommitDate: Mon Jul 19 02:00:34 2010 +0200
> : 
> :     pm_qos: Get rid of the allocation in pm_qos_add_request()
> 
> 
> It's a pretty crappy warning too.  Neither the warning nor the code
> comments provide developers with any hint as to what they have done
> wrong, nor what they must do to fix things.  And the patch changelog
> doesn't mention the new warnings *at all*.
Sorry about that.  Its my fault, but I thought I had stronger language
in the original warning text.

The warning is for pm_qos users that are attempting to change a request
that isn't even in the list of request.  It was a silent failure in the
original code.  The result of the silent fail is that the request is not
changed as assumed by the caller.

> So one must assume that the people who stuck this thing in the tree
> have volunteered to fix e1000e.  Let's cc 'em.

I'll put a 1000e patch together at the airport, but I wont be able to
test it until tuesday.

--mgross