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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleeping function called from invalid context at block/cfq-iosched.c (Was: Re: 2.6.21-mm1)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 16:23:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070507162349.0790706f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463FAF1C.8060500@simon.arlott.org.uk>

On Mon, 07 May 2007 23:58:36 +0100
Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:

> 
> I've just got this under mainline too now (0ec54aa8af5e6faa346aa55a1ad15ee6c25bb42d 2007-05-05 22:08:06):
> 
> [84567.084000] BUG: scheduling while atomic: pdflush/0xeff84acf/186
> [84567.084000] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> [84567.084000] do_IRQ: stack overflow: 440
> [84567.084000]  [<b0104f3a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [84567.084000]  [<b0104f62>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> [84567.084000]  [<b0105075>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
> [84567.084000]  [<b01069a8>] do_IRQ+0xd8/0xe0
> [84567.084000]  [<b0104bd6>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34
> [84567.084000]  [<b0120a28>] printk+0x18/0x20
> [84567.084000]  [<b0140b33>] debug_show_held_locks+0x23/0x30
> [84567.084000]  [<b04e7fea>] schedule+0x52a/0x680
> [84567.084000]  [<b04e8a0a>] schedule_timeout+0x8a/0x90
> [84567.084000]  [<b026c61e>] xlog_state_sync+0x21e/0x260
> [84567.084000]  [<b0269274>] _xfs_log_force+0x44/0x70
> [84567.084000]  [<b022dd22>] xfs_alloc_search_busy+0xd2/0xe0
> [84567.084000]  [<b022d1e6>] xfs_alloc_get_freelist+0xe6/0x100
> [84567.084000]  [<b022fb7f>] xfs_alloc_split+0x1f/0x4c0
> [84567.084000]  [<b022ec3d>] xfs_alloc_insrec+0x35d/0x3b0
> [84567.084000]  [<b02304f9>] xfs_alloc_insert+0x59/0xd0
> [84567.084000]  [<b022c847>] xfs_free_ag_extent+0x297/0x640
> [84567.084000]  [<b022ce11>] xfs_alloc_fix_freelist+0x1d1/0x4c0
> [84567.084000]  [<b022d73b>] xfs_alloc_vextent+0x1eb/0x4b0
> [84567.084000]  [<b023d4bb>] xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x3bb/0x8f0
> [84567.084000]  [<b023da11>] xfs_bmap_alloc+0x21/0x40
> [84567.084000]  [<b02411bf>] xfs_bmapi+0xdbf/0x1450
> [84567.084000]  [<b0266b4a>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x2ba/0x520
> [84567.084000]  [<b026587b>] xfs_iomap+0x45b/0x470
> [84567.084000]  [<b028d85c>] xfs_bmap+0x2c/0x40
> [84567.084000]  [<b0284a0c>] xfs_map_blocks+0x3c/0x80
> [84567.084000]  [<b0285953>] xfs_page_state_convert+0x2f3/0x670
> [84567.084000]  [<b0285d2a>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x5a/0xf0
> [84567.084000]  [<b01539a6>] generic_writepages+0x226/0x360
> [84567.084000]  [<b0285de4>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x24/0x60
> [84567.084000]  [<b0153b0c>] do_writepages+0x2c/0x50
> [84567.084000]  [<b01887d9>] __sync_single_inode+0x59/0x1f0
> [84567.084000]  [<b01889b4>] __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x1d0
> [84567.084000]  [<b0188d09>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1c9/0x2e0
> [84567.084000]  [<b0188eee>] writeback_inodes+0xce/0xe0
> [84567.084000]  [<b01535c3>] wb_kupdate+0x73/0xf0
> [84567.084000]  [<b015419e>] __pdflush+0xce/0x1a0
> [84567.084000]  [<b0154295>] pdflush+0x25/0x30
> [84567.084000]  [<b01342b4>] kthread+0x94/0xd0
> [84567.084000]  [<b0104d7b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
> [84567.084000]  =======================
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f3a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f62>] do_IRQ: stack overflow: 328
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f3a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f62>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> [84567.087000]  [<b0105075>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
> [84567.087000]  [<b01069a8>] do_IRQ+0xd8/0xe0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104bd6>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34
> [84567.087000]  [<b0120a28>] printk+0x18/0x20
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f0d>] print_trace_address+0x1d/0x30
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104e18>] dump_trace+0x48/0xb0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f3a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104f62>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> [84567.087000]  [<b0105075>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
> [84567.087000]  [<b04e7ffa>] schedule+0x53a/0x680
> [84567.087000]  [<b04e8a0a>] schedule_timeout+0x8a/0x90
> [84567.087000]  [<b026c61e>] xlog_state_sync+0x21e/0x260
> [84567.087000]  [<b0269274>] _xfs_log_force+0x44/0x70
> [84567.087000]  [<b022dd22>] xfs_alloc_search_busy+0xd2/0xe0
> [84567.087000]  [<b022d1e6>] xfs_alloc_get_freelist+0xe6/0x100
> [84567.087000]  [<b022fb7f>] xfs_alloc_split+0x1f/0x4c0
> [84567.087000]  [<b022ec3d>] xfs_alloc_insrec+0x35d/0x3b0
> [84567.087000]  [<b02304f9>] xfs_alloc_insert+0x59/0xd0
> [84567.087000]  [<b022c847>] xfs_free_ag_extent+0x297/0x640
> [84567.087000]  [<b022ce11>] xfs_alloc_fix_freelist+0x1d1/0x4c0
> [84567.087000]  [<b022d73b>] xfs_alloc_vextent+0x1eb/0x4b0
> [84567.087000]  [<b023d4bb>] xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x3bb/0x8f0
> [84567.087000]  [<b023da11>] xfs_bmap_alloc+0x21/0x40
> [84567.087000]  [<b02411bf>] xfs_bmapi+0xdbf/0x1450
> [84567.087000]  [<b0266b4a>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x2ba/0x520
> [84567.087000]  [<b026587b>] xfs_iomap+0x45b/0x470
> [84567.087000]  [<b028d85c>] xfs_bmap+0x2c/0x40
> [84567.087000]  [<b0284a0c>] xfs_map_blocks+0x3c/0x80
> [84567.087000]  [<b0285953>] xfs_page_state_convert+0x2f3/0x670
> [84567.087000]  [<b0285d2a>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x5a/0xf0
> [84567.087000]  [<b01539a6>] generic_writepages+0x226/0x360
> [84567.087000]  [<b0285de4>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x24/0x60
> [84567.087000]  [<b0153b0c>] do_writepages+0x2c/0x50
> [84567.087000]  [<b01887d9>] __sync_single_inode+0x59/0x1f0
> [84567.087000]  [<b01889b4>] __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x1d0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0188d09>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1c9/0x2e0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0188eee>] writeback_inodes+0xce/0xe0
> [84567.087000]  [<b01535c3>] wb_kupdate+0x73/0xf0
> [84567.087000]  [<b015419e>] __pdflush+0xce/0x1a0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0154295>] pdflush+0x25/0x30
> [84567.087000]  [<b01342b4>] kthread+0x94/0xd0
> [84567.087000]  [<b0104d7b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
> [84567.087000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00008034
> [84567.087000]  printing eip:
> [84567.087000] b0104e36
> [84567.087000] *pde = 00000000
> [84567.087000] Oops: 0000 [#1]
> [84567.087000] PREEMPT
> [84567.087000] Modules linked in: drbd mt352 saa7134_dvb dvb_pll video_buf_dvb dvb_core
> [84567.087000] CPU:    0
> [84567.087000] EIP:    0060:[<b0104e36>]    Not tainted VLI
> [84567.087000] EFLAGS: 00010046   (2.6.21-git #197)
> [84567.087000] EIP is at dump_trace+0x66/0xb0
> [84567.087000] eax: 00000000   ebx: b18f6fe0   ecx: b06323ec   edx: b05afc71
> [84567.087000] esi: 00008000   edi: 00008ffd   ebp: b18f6138   esp: b18f6120
> [84567.087000] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 0000  gs: 0000  ss: 0068
> [84567.087000] Process pdflush (pid: 186, ti=b18f5000 task=eff84ad0 task.ti=b18f6000)
> [84567.087000] Stack: b18f6130 b04ea9af 00000001 b05b9937 0000000a b06d656e b18f6158 b0104f3a
> [84567.087000]        b06323ec b05b9937 00000000 b06356a8 b18f6160 b18f622a b18f6168 b0104f62
> [84567.087000]        b05b9937 b06d656e b18f6178 b0105075 b05afeac b18f6184 b18f61a8 b01069a8
> [84567.087000] Call Trace:
> [84567.087000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034
> [84567.087000]  printing eip:
> [84567.087000] b0104e36
> [84567.087000] *pde = 00000000
> [84567.087000] Oops: 0000 [#2]
> [84567.087000] PREEMPT
> [84567.087000] Modules linked in: drbd mt352 saa7134_dvb dvb_pll video_buf_dvb dvb_core
> [84567.087000] CPU:    0
> [84567.087000] EIP:    0060:[<b0104e36>]    Not tainted VLI
> [84567.087000] EFLAGS: 00010046   (2.6.21-git #197)
> [84567.087000] EIP is at dump_trace+0x66/0xb0
> [84567.087000] eax: 00000000   ebx: b18f5f60   ecx: b06323ec   edx: b05afc71
> [84567.087000] esi: 00000000   edi: 00000ffd   ebp: b18f5f60   esp: b18f5f48
> [84567.087000] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 0000  gs: 0000  ss: 0068
> [84567.087000] Process pdflush (pid: 186, ti=b18f5000 task=eff84ad0 task.ti=b18f6000)
> [84567.087000] Stack: 5b3e303c 36353438 38302e37 b05afcde 00000018 00000000 b18f5f80 b0104f3a
> [84567.087000]        b06323ec b05afcde 
> 
> Then it just gave up doing anything sane, presumably because of the stack overflow  in do_IRQ:
> http://redrum.lp0.eu/tmp/100_4037.jpg
> http://redrum.lp0.eu/tmp/100_4038.jpg
> 

ugly.  And you're using 8k stacks?

The way we'll fix this is to wait for someone to do a git-bisect on it. 
Perhaps you can do that?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-05  8:49 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-05 10:36 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Pekka Enberg
2007-05-05 17:18   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Gabriel C
2007-05-05 10:54 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Gabriel C
2007-05-05 12:14 ` [-mm patch] mutex.h bogus __must_check (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-05 18:31   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-05 15:48 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Maciej Rutecki
2007-05-05 18:48   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-05 21:48     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Michael Buesch
2007-05-05 22:25       ` 2.6.21-mm1 John W. Linville
2007-05-05 16:09 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Gabriel C
2007-05-05 16:44 ` [-mm patch] fix fs/nfs/nfsroot.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2007-05-05 17:20   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-05-05 17:27     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-05-07 10:47   ` David Howells
2007-05-07 10:56     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-07 13:12       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-05-07 15:49         ` David Howells
2007-05-05 17:00 ` [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation Adrian Bunk
2007-05-05 18:57   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-05 19:09     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-05 19:13     ` Josef Sipek
2007-05-05 19:22       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-05 19:19     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-05 19:23       ` Josef Sipek
2007-05-05 20:31   ` Josef Sipek
2007-05-05 17:19 ` [-mm patch] drivers/battery/olpc_battery.c: fix compilation Adrian Bunk
2007-05-05 17:30 ` [-mm patch] the OLPC laptop is not available for $100 Adrian Bunk
2007-05-06 21:04   ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-05-05 18:10 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-05 20:29 ` acpi_handle is intel only Olaf Hering
2007-05-08  6:11   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-05-05 20:38 ` cpufreq_set_policy [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.ko] undefined! Olaf Hering
2007-05-05 21:13 ` [-mm patch] do_revoke error handling (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-05 21:23   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-05 21:47     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-06  9:12       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-05 23:22 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
     [not found]   ` <a8f16e2b0705052130g37307df1vb7bd8a178d3130a@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-06  4:33     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Dan Kruchinin
2007-05-06 20:44       ` 2.6.21-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-06 20:55         ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 22:01           ` 2.6.21-mm1 Williams, Dan J
2007-05-06 15:00     ` Fwd: 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
2007-05-06 20:23   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-06  6:49 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-06 20:57   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-06 21:08     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 21:27       ` 2.6.21-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-06  9:03 ` [-mm patch] get_unmapped_area: remove now unused ret variable (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-06 21:45   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-06 14:59 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
2007-05-06 20:08   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 21:04     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Satyam Sharma
2007-05-06 21:13       ` 2.6.21-mm1 Satyam Sharma
2007-05-06 21:22       ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 21:13     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
2007-05-06 19:00 ` 2.6.21-mm1: DRM does kmalloc(0) sometimes? Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-06 19:30   ` [BUG] mixing 8250/16550 and AT91 serial ports causes oops Ryan Ordway
2007-05-06 20:05     ` Russell King
2007-05-06 20:36 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
2007-05-06 20:54   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 21:07     ` 2.6.21-mm1 Simon Arlott
2007-05-07 22:58     ` sleeping function called from invalid context at block/cfq-iosched.c (Was: Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Simon Arlott
2007-05-07 23:23       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-07 23:30         ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-07 23:33           ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-08  4:31             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-08  5:24               ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-08  5:31                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-08  5:37                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-08  6:03                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-08  8:59                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-08 10:46                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-08  5:38                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-08  6:18                   ` David Chinner
2007-05-08  8:28                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-07 10:35 ` [PATCH] drivers/macintosh: remove default y from Kconfig (was: " Borislav Petkov
2007-05-08  8:33   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-08 20:16     ` Borislav Petkov
2007-05-07 11:04 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Cornelia Huck
2007-05-07 16:06 ` 2.6.21-mm1 J.A. Magallón
2007-05-08  9:46 ` 2.6.21-mm1 -- x86 verify_cpu.S compile failure Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-08 15:24   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-09  8:49     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-09 16:06     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-10  8:33       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-08 13:04 ` 2.6.21-mm1 Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-08 16:07   ` 2.6.21-mm1 Christoph Lameter
2007-05-08 17:22 ` kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-08 19:35   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-08 22:12   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-08 23:47     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-09  7:40   ` Jan Beulich
2007-05-09  9:00     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-09 12:26       ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-09 18:04         ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-05-08 22:48 ` 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot Kevin Winchester
2007-05-08 23:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-08 23:33     ` Kevin Winchester
2007-05-08 23:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-09  0:58         ` 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot - crypto? Kevin Winchester
2007-05-09  3:02           ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-10 11:10             ` Kevin Winchester
2007-05-14 17:38               ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-05-15  1:43                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-15 18:52                   ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-05-18  3:19                     ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-18 12:09                       ` Luca
2007-05-18 13:14                         ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-18 19:16                           ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-05-18 20:48                             ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-19  4:50                             ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-17 17:46                   ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-05-17 19:20                     ` Luca
2007-05-08 23:57       ` 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot Christoph Lameter
2007-05-08 23:08   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14  8:25 ` mach64 breakage in 2.6.22 Olaf Hering
2007-06-14 17:36   ` Ville Syrjälä
2007-06-18 14:45     ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-21 17:25       ` Ville Syrjälä
2007-06-22 16:06         ` Olaf Hering

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