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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: wfg@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel boot hangs on commit "switch fput to task_work_add"
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:05:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120714130510.GC31729@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120710141830.GA5385@localhost>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:18:30PM +0800, wfg@linux.intel.com wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> The linux-next kernel reliably hung after this line:
> 
> [    4.846260] debug: unmapping init [mem 0xffff88000182a000-0xffff8800019fffff]
> 
> And it's bisected to commit:
> 
>         commit 4a9ffe81385c2af04f296bea05482f34e02ea10d
>         Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>         Date:   Sun Jun 24 09:56:45 2012 +0400
> 
>             switch fput to task_work_add
> 
>             ... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
>             (and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).
> 
> I tried add this debug aid:
> 
> init_post(void):
> +       printk(KERN_WARNING "flush_delayed_fput\n");
>         flush_delayed_fput();
> +       printk(KERN_WARNING "flush_delayed_fput done\n");
> 
> And then it hangs after "flush_delayed_fput done". So it's not directly
> freezing inside flush_delayed_fput()..

Could you post a stack trace, etc.?  I'll try to reproduce that one, obviously,
but...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-14 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-10 14:18 Kernel boot hangs on commit "switch fput to task_work_add" wfg
2012-07-12 13:46 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-14 13:05 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-07-14 13:09   ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-14 13:48   ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-14 13:58     ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-14 14:14       ` Al Viro
2012-07-14 14:34         ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-14 15:19           ` Al Viro
2012-07-14 15:29             ` Fengguang Wu

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