Re: WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 1/20/2012 10:56 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> What I'm finding though is that if I stop and start nfsd multiple
> times, then I eventually get a warning like this on start:
>
> [ 5157.128514] WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
> [ 5157.128742] Hardware name: Bochs
> [ 5157.128742] ODEBUG: activate not available (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: stub_timer+0x0/0x20
> [ 5157.128742] Modules linked in: nfsd(O) nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd sunrpc floppy virtio_net i2c_piix4 i2c_core virtio_balloon joydev pcspkr virtio_blk [last unloaded: nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742] Pid: 1312, comm: rpc.nfsd Tainted: G        W  O 3.3.0-rc1+ #1
> [ 5157.128742] Call Trace:
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff8106135f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff81061456>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff8132ba2c>] debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff81070db0>] ? timer_debug_hint+0x10/0x10
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff8132c02b>] debug_object_activate+0xfb/0x190
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff81072728>] ? lock_timer_base.isra.24+0x38/0x70
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff81074676>] mod_timer+0xf6/0x450
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff810749e8>] add_timer+0x18/0x20
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff8108168e>] queue_delayed_work_on+0xbe/0x140
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff81084441>] queue_delayed_work+0x21/0x40
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa006e568>] rpc_queue_upcall+0xe8/0x100 [sunrpc]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa012a121>] __cld_pipe_upcall+0x61/0xc0 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa012ad98>] nfsd4_cld_init+0x48/0x140 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa012b22a>] nfsd4_client_tracking_init+0x2a/0xc0 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff8169797e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa01266fa>] nfs4_state_start+0x1a/0x100 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa01028c5>] nfsd_svc+0x135/0x200 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa0103df0>] ? write_maxblksize+0x130/0x130 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa0103e6d>] write_threads+0x7d/0xd0 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff811dd16a>] ? simple_transaction_get+0xca/0xe0
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffffa0102ee7>] nfsctl_transaction_write+0x57/0x90 [nfsd]
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff811b4c9f>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x190
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff811b4fdd>] sys_write+0x4d/0x90
> [ 5157.128742]  [<ffffffff816a3469>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This one is telling you that the timer you're about to run hasn't been 
registered with debug_objects. Most likely the work item hasn't been 
initialized properly and so it hasn't had INIT_DELAYED_WORK() called on it.

>
> ...or this on stop:
>
> [ 5200.804410] WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
> [ 5200.808205] Hardware name: Bochs
> [ 5200.810121] ODEBUG: assert_init not available (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: stub_timer+0x0/0x20
> [ 5200.812734] Modules linked in: nfsd(O) nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd sunrpc floppy virtio_net i2c_piix4 i2c_core virtio_balloon joydev pcspkr virtio_blk [last unloaded: nfsd]
> [ 5200.821596] Pid: 1394, comm: nfsd Tainted: G        W  O 3.3.0-rc1+ #1
> [ 5200.822409] Call Trace:
> [ 5200.822726]  [<ffffffff8106135f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
> [ 5200.823509]  [<ffffffff81061456>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
> [ 5200.824243]  [<ffffffff8132ba2c>] debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0
> [ 5200.824935]  [<ffffffff81070db0>] ? timer_debug_hint+0x10/0x10
> [ 5200.825665]  [<ffffffff8132c543>] debug_object_assert_init+0xe3/0x120
> [ 5200.826474]  [<ffffffff810737b4>] del_timer+0x24/0x1b0
> [ 5200.827129]  [<ffffffff81085314>] __cancel_work_timer+0x34/0x140
> [ 5200.827829]  [<ffffffff81085432>] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x12/0x20
> [ 5200.832905]  [<ffffffffa006e430>] rpc_unlink+0x1e0/0x230 [sunrpc]
> [ 5200.833716]  [<ffffffffa012a195>] nfsd4_remove_cld_pipe+0x15/0x40 [nfsd]
> [ 5200.834558]  [<ffffffffa012b2e0>] nfsd4_client_tracking_exit+0x20/0x30 [nfsd]
> [ 5200.835434]  [<ffffffffa0126984>] nfs4_state_shutdown+0x1a4/0x1c0 [nfsd]
> [ 5200.836271]  [<ffffffffa010219a>] nfsd_last_thread+0x2a/0x60 [nfsd]
> [ 5200.837045]  [<ffffffffa005f66c>] svc_destroy+0x5c/0x140 [sunrpc]
> [ 5200.837778]  [<ffffffffa005f9f6>] svc_exit_thread+0xa6/0xb0 [sunrpc]
> [ 5200.838545]  [<ffffffffa0102123>] nfsd+0x123/0x170 [nfsd]
> [ 5200.839221]  [<ffffffffa0102000>] ? 0xffffffffa0101fff
> [ 5200.839820]  [<ffffffff8108a747>] kthread+0xb7/0xc0
> [ 5200.840431]  [<ffffffff816a48b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [ 5200.850883]  [<ffffffff8169acf4>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [ 5200.851654]  [<ffffffff8108a690>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x1a0/0x1a0
> [ 5200.852418]  [<ffffffff816a48b0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

This is similar. Now you're deleting a timer that debug_objects doesn't 
know about.

>
> The problem is that even after staring at this code for a while, I'm
> still clueless as to what this is telling me. It doesn't happen every
> time either, so maybe there's a race of some sort involved.
>
> It's possible that my patch is broken and doing something wrong, but
> I'm starting not to think so. I'm not really using timers directly --
> I'm using rpc_pipefs, which queues a delayed job to a workqueue, and
> that is manipulating the timer. The delayed_work (and hence the timer)
> are part of an rpc_inode.
>
> Can anyone shed a little light on what this is complaining about?
>

Do you have workqueue debugging enabled too (DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK)? I 
would hope that work item debugging would say the same things and then 
we would know that the work item itself wasn't initialized properly.