From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Eran Liberty <liberty@extricom.com>
Subject: Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219110692.8062.0.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A9901B.1080900@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:07 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Eran Liberty wrote:
> > After compiling a kernel with ftrace I started to experience all sorts
> > of crashes.
>
> Just to make sure...
>
> ftrace enables markers too, and RCU has tracing with the markers. This
> may not be the problem, but I just want to eliminate as many variables
> as possible.
> Could you disable ftrace, but keep the markers on too. Also, could you
> enable ftrace again and turn on the FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST.
I spent some time last week tracking one of those crashes and it appears
that we are getting corruption of some of the non-volatile registers.
So far, I found out that it -seems- to be coming from stack frame
corruption during a timer interrupt.
I haven't had a chance to dig further yet.
Cheers,
Ben.
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[not found] ` <48A92E15.2080709@extricom.com>
2008-08-18 15:07 ` ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3) Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 15:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-18 16:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 17:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-18 17:21 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-18 18:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:29 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-19 1:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 2:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 2:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 2:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 2:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 3:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 3:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 4:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 16:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 17:34 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 21:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 9:40 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-19 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 23:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-20 1:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 2:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 3:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 4:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 7:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 13:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 13:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 13:36 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 14:02 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 14:55 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-20 15:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 18:23 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 18:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 15:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 14:16 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 14:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 14:50 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 21:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-20 21:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:56 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-18 19:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-18 18:25 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-18 18:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 1:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-19 9:56 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 13:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-18 18:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 12:09 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 13:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 14:21 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-19 14:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-19 20:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-20 11:18 ` Eran Liberty
2008-08-20 13:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 1:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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