Re: 3.5-rc6 printk formatting problem during oom-kill.

Dave Jones
2012-07-12T00:54:20Z

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 08:48:51PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 20:27 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I noticed that the format of the oom-killer output seems to have changed, and
> > > now it spews stuff like..
> > >
> > > [49461.758070] lowmem_reserve[]:
> > > [49461.758071] 0
> > > [49461.758071] 2643
> > > [49461.758071] 3878
> > > [49461.758072] 3878
> > > [49461.758072]
> > > [49461.758072] Node 0
> >
> > > Does the oom-killer code need modifying, or the printk code ?
> > > I know there's been some regressions in this area recently, but this is still
> > > happening on the current tree (8c84bf4166a4698296342841a549bbee03860ac0)
> >
> > This likely fixes it:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=blob;f=kmsg-merge-cont.patch;hb=HEAD
> >
> > Let me check if it does, and if I can reproduce it.
>
> It looks fine here with the above mentioned patch:

Now that that patch is in Linus tree, I've hit what's probably a different case.
Look at the modules list in this oops..

[10016.460020] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child1:24295]
[10016.470008] rose<4>[10016.470008] ip_set_bitmap_ipmac<4>[10016.470008] nf_conntrack_h323<4>[10016.470008] girbil_sir<4>[10016.470008] ath9k_common<4>[10016.470008] hdlcdrv<4>[10016.470008] tun<4>[10016.470008] spcp8x5<4>[10016.470008] rc_streamzap<4>[10016.470008] rc_medion_x10<4>[10016.470008] gspca_mr97310a<4>[10016.470008] hid_multitouch<4>[10016.470008] fam15h_power<4>[10016.470008] sym53c8xx<4>[10016.470008] gunze<4>[10016.470008] pata_ns87410<4>[10016.470008] snd_ymfpci<4>[10016.470008] michael_mic<4>[10016.470008] blocklayoutdriver nfs_layout_nfsv41_files nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c raid0 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ppdev dcdbas coretemp kvm_intel kvm microcode snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device serio_raw snd_pcm lpc_ich mfd_core tg3 i2c_i801 pcspkr snd_timer i5000_edac edac_core snd i5k_amb soundcore snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport shpchp sunrpc firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t floppy nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core mxm_wmi video wmi [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[10016.470008] irq event stamp: 82066
[10016.470008] hardirqs last enabled at (82065): [<ffffffff816b8cf0>] restore_args+0x0/0x30
[10016.470008] hardirqs last disabled at (82066): [<ffffffff816c236a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x80
[10016.470008] softirqs last enabled at (82064): [<ffffffff8106ef8c>] __do_softirq+0x13c/0x3e0
[10016.470008] softirqs last disabled at (82055): [<ffffffff816c2d6c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[10016.470008] CPU 1
[10016.470008] Modules linked in:<4>[10016.470008] unix_diag<4>[10016.470008] ip_set_bitmap_ipmac<4>[10016.470008] nf_conntrack_h323<4>[10016.470008] girbil_sir<4>[10016.470008] ath9k_common<4>[10016.470008] hdlcdrv<4>[10016.470008] tun<4>[10016.470008] spcp8x5<4>[10016.470008] rc_streamzap<4>[10016.470008] rc_medion_x10<4>[10016.470008] gspca_mr97310a<4>[10016.470008] hid_multitouch<4>[10016.470008] fam15h_power<4>[10016.470008] sym53c8xx<4>[10016.470008] gunze<4>[10016.470008] pata_ns87410<4>[10016.470008] snd_ymfpci<4>[10016.470008] michael_mic<4>[10016.470008] blocklayoutdriver nfs_layout_nfsv41_files nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c raid0 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ppdev dcdbas coretemp kvm_intel kvm microcode snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device serio_raw snd_pcm lpc_ich mfd_core tg3 i2c_i801 pcspkr snd_timer i5000_edac edac_core snd i5k_amb soundcore snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport shpchp sunrpc firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t floppy nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core mxm_wmi video wmi [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[10016.470008]
[10016.470008] Pid: 24295, comm: trinity-child1 Tainted: G C 3.5.0-rc6+ #80 Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 490 /0DT031
[10016.470008] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810ce800>] [<ffffffff810ce800>] match_held_lock+0x190/0x190
[10016.470008] RSP: 0018:ffff88016bdf1c10 EFLAGS: 00000202
[10016.470008] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffff81021d43 RCX: 000000000000000f
[10016.470008] RDX: ffff88016bdf1fd8 RSI: ffffffff81c2fb60 RDI: ffffffff81c2fb60
[10016.470008] RBP: ffff88016bdf1c38 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000
[10016.470008] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff81021db9
[10016.470008] R13: ffff88016bdf1b88 R14: ffffffff81021d43 R15: ffff88016bdf1b78
[10016.470008] FS: 00007fbad33ad700(0000) GS:ffff880226800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[10016.470008] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[10016.470008] CR2: 0000000000000001 CR3: 00000001413a1000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
[10016.470008] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[10016.470008] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[10016.470008] Process trinity-child1 (pid: 24295, threadinfo ffff88016bdf0000, task ffff88016a244900)
[10016.470008] Stack:
[10016.470008] ffffffff8132ef67 ffff88016bdf1c48 000000000000229c 00000000000034b2
[10016.470008] ffffffff81c6c7c0 ffff88016bdf1c98 ffffffff812b319c ffff88016bdf1c98
[10016.470008] 0000000000000246 ffff88015a81d428 ffff88016bdf1cf0 13722bca39882609
[10016.470008] Call Trace:
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff8132ef67>] ? idr_find+0xd7/0x150
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff812b319c>] sysvipc_find_ipc+0x5c/0x170
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff812b3374>] sysvipc_proc_next+0x54/0xf0
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811e8cd9>] traverse+0xc9/0x240
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811e91e0>] ? seq_lseek+0x120/0x120
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811e954d>] seq_read+0x36d/0x420
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811e91e0>] ? seq_lseek+0x120/0x120
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811e91e0>] ? seq_lseek+0x120/0x120
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff8122f916>] proc_reg_read+0x86/0xc0
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff8122f890>] ? proc_reg_write+0xc0/0xc0
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811c4649>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x59/0x90
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811c4966>] do_readv_writev+0x1b6/0x1d0
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff810d462d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff816b8350>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x50
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff816c1855>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811c4a1c>] vfs_readv+0x3c/0x50
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff811c4c6a>] sys_preadv+0xba/0xc0
[10016.470008] [<ffffffff816c1829>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[10016.470008] Code: 80 3d dc 14 c1 00 01 74 a0 be cb 02 00 00 48 c7 c7 dc 94 9d 81 e8 81 63 f9 ff c6 05 c2 14 c1 00 01 eb 86 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <55> 48 89 e5 41 56 41 55 49 89 fd 41 54 65 4c 8b 24 25 c0 c8 00

Also, I have no idea how the hell the 'Modules linked in:' line (9th line) ended up being printed /after/ the
module listing began (2nd line).

Sidenote: Who maintains sysvipc ?

Dave