From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754721Ab3KZJnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:43:07 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:42386 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106Ab3KZJnB (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Nov 2013 04:43:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:42:50 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: NeilBrown Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com, "Li, Shaohua" , LKML , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:693! Message-ID: <20131126094250.GH10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20131123032205.GB20794@localhost> <20131125103522.6a1c1b36@notabene.brown> <20131125095323.GW10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131126153106.6ae734c0@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131126153106.6ae734c0@notabene.brown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 03:31:06PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > The stack trace in the previous email seemed to suggest that a process was > blocking inside a wake_up call, but it wasn't at all conclusive. And I've > seen a few wake_ups in other stack traces which seem to be connected with > other deadlock. Probably some sort of co-incidence. It appears stuck in some paravirt clock layer.. or just a lucky hit. I never run on (para)virt if I can help it, so I'm not much help there.