Re: 3.7-rc7: BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!

[Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 at 14:59, Li Zhong wrote:
> FYI, it is already in the next of ppc tree 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next
> 
> I guess it would get into 3.9, at least. 

Hm, is there no chance to get this into 3.8? I've been running with this 
patch applied since 3.7-rc7 and it got rid of this 
"MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low" message. I've just upgraded to 3.8-rc5 
and it's still not in mainline :-\

Christian.

[0] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1211.3/01836.html

> > > ==============================================
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> > > index 9499385..cadebfd 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> > > @@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ ret_from_fork:
> > >  ret_from_kernel_thread:
> > >  	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
> > >  	bl	schedule_tail
> > > +	li	r3,0
> > > +	stw	r3,0(r1)
> > >  	mtlr	r14
> > >  	mr	r3,r15
> > >  	PPC440EP_ERR42
> > > ==============================================
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Christian.
> > > > 
> > > > > [40007.339487] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
> > > > > [69731.388717] BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!
> > > > > [69731.390371] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> > > > > [69731.391942] Call Trace:
> > > > > [69731.393525] [c9a61c10] [c0009064] show_stack+0x70/0x1bc (unreliable)
> > > > > [69731.395152] [c9a61c50] [c0077460] save_trace+0xfc/0x114
> > > > > [69731.396735] [c9a61c60] [c007be20] __lock_acquire+0x1568/0x19b8
> > > > > [69731.398296] [c9a61d00] [c007c2c0] lock_acquire+0x50/0x70
> > > > > [69731.399857] [c9a61d20] [c0550e28] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x5c/0x78
> > > > > [69731.401419] [c9a61d40] [c054fb58] __schedule+0xd8/0x534
> > > > > [69731.402972] [c9a61da0] [c0550094] _cond_resched+0x50/0x68
> > > > > [69731.404527] [c9a61db0] [c0479908] dst_gc_task+0xbc/0x258
> > > > > [69731.406070] [c9a61e40] [c004eeb8] process_one_work+0x1f4/0x49c
> > > > > [69731.407585] [c9a61e80] [c004f644] worker_thread+0x14c/0x400
> > > > > [69731.409075] [c9a61eb0] [c0057634] kthread+0xbc/0xc0
> > > > > [69731.410521] [c9a61f40] [c0011ad4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
> > > > > [...repeated 54 times...]
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone knows what this is about?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Christian.
> > > > > 
> > > > > [0] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1211.0/03025.html

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