Re: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5

Nathan Lynch
2006-01-18T06:41:01Z

Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:52:44AM -0600, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> > Well, it turns out that I've been running with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES all
> > along...so no noise. My console output is a little different that
> > Serge's, so I think this is timing related. Also note that I'm dying in
> > the timer interrupt...
>
> duh... here's the backtrace
> 0:mon> t
> [c000000000577890] c0000000000034b4 decrementer_common+0xb4/0x100
> --- Exception: 901 (Decrementer) at c0000000004627ec
> .__mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x3bc/0x4c4
> [c000000000577c60] c000000000075064 .__lock_cpu_hotplug+0x44/0xa8
> [c000000000577ce0] c000000000075600 .register_cpu_notifier+0x24/0x68
> [c000000000577d70] c00000000052cd7c .do_init_bootmem+0x68c/0xab0
> [c000000000577e50] c000000000522c84 .setup_arch+0x21c/0x2c0
> [c000000000577ef0] c00000000051a538 .start_kernel+0x40/0x280
> [c000000000577f90] c000000000008574 .hmt_init+0x0/0x8c

The mutex debug code (debug_spin_unlock in kernel/mutex-debug.h) is
doing a local_irq_enable way before we're ready.

BTW: I couldn't build powerpc without mutex debugging until I changed
the SYNC_ON_SMP in include/asm-powerpc/mutex.h:__mutex_fastpath_unlock
to ISYNC_ON_SMP.

With that change, I was able to boot semi-successfully with mutex
debugging off -- the system got hung up when udev started, apparently
(or maybe I was too impatient).