Re: [Linux-ia64] Hard "hangs" with 2.4.16

Chris McDermott
2001-12-10T22:49:45Z

Jack,

Looks like my problem is something else. This patch didn't
correct the problem.

Thanks,

Chris

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 15:06 -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> >
> > Anybody else been seeing hangs with 2.4.16+ia64-1128.diff?
> >
> > I'm running on 4x Lions, some with B3's and some with C0's.
> > The BIOS revision is 83B. I have seen the hang on at least
> > 4 of the systems. This is a hard hang, no kb interrupts, so
> > kdb doesn't help. I don't have much to go on yet. The hangs
> > occur in random places, sometimes at various places during
> > boot and sometimes after the system has been up for a few
> > minutes. I put an ITP (American Arium) on one of the failing
> > systems and it didn't fail. Stayed up all night. I moved the
> > ITP to another failing system and was able to catch 1
> > occurrence of a "hang". I'm still trying to characterize this
> > hang to determine whether this is the same thing I am seeing
> > on the other systems or just a hardware (configuration) problem.
> > What I saw from the ITP was that all of the processors had
> > apparently reset (all of their IPs had returned to the reset
> > vector, 0x80000000FFFFFF90 (I did have the ITP set to break on
> > reset, but it didn't trigger). Not much else to go on, since I
> > couldn't even dump any useful processor context.
>
> We saw the same symptom & tracked it down to a bug in the
> write_unlock() macro. The result was a memory-ordering problem
> that caused the "unlock" of the tasklist_lock to be made
> globally visible before the "store's" to the link fields were
> visible. The result was a closed loop in the tasklist links.
>
>
> Try adding a barrier operation BEFORE the clear_bit.
>
> OLD
> #define write_unlock(x) ({clear_bit(31, (x)); mb();})
>
> NEW
> #define write_unlock(x) ({smp_mb__before_clear_bit(); clear_bit(31, (x));})
>
>
> This has been fixed in a later version of the IA64 patch.
>
>
>
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this sort of odd behavior with 2.4.16 on
> > Intel Lion SDVs?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris McDermott
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Jack Steiner (651-683-5302) (vnet 233-5302) steiner@sgi.com