Re: [Question] Hooks for scheduler tracing (CFS)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> The probe point did get triggered, and soon after that I had the 
> following in dmesg, leading to system hang...
> 
> BUG: scheduling while atomic: softirq-rcu/3/0x00000004/52, CPU#3
> 
> Call Trace:
>  <#DB>  [<ffffffff81033555>] __schedule_bug+0x4b/0x4f
>  [<ffffffff8128b414>] __sched_text_start+0xcc/0xaaa
>  [<ffffffff8100b574>] dump_trace+0x248/0x25d
>  [<ffffffff81068334>] print_traces+0x9/0xb
>  [<ffffffff8100b5e5>] show_trace+0x5c/0x64
>  [<ffffffff8128c1c2>] schedule+0xe4/0x104
>  [<ffffffff8128d10c>] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0xfc/0x19e
>  [<ffffffff8128d9de>] __rt_spin_lock+0x1f/0x21
>  [<ffffffff8128d9e9>] rt_spin_lock+0x9/0xb
>  [<ffffffff88387dcc>]
> :stap_c1a10b1292b5f87a563f56d89ddfc765_606:_stp_print_flush+0x5f/0xdf
>  [<ffffffff88389e41>]
> :stap_c1a10b1292b5f87a563f56d89ddfc765_606:probe_1493+0x1f6/0x257
>  [<ffffffff8838bdc3>]

I'd suggest to not put a probe into a preempt-off section - put it to 
the beginning and to the end of schedule() to capture context-switches. 
_stp_print_flush() is in the systemtap-generated module, right? Maybe 
the problem is resolved by changing that spinlock to use raw_spinlock_t 
/ DEFINE_RAW_SPIN_LOCK.


	Ingo