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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:616
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 23:22:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131204232251.73cc62c6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386227524.4806.7.camel@phoenix>

On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:12:04 +0800 Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com> wrote:

> > 
> > blam.  spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock) failed to decrement
> > preempt_count().  What the heck.
> > 
> > What architecture is this?  Please send the full .config.
> > 
> > And exactly which kernel version is in use?
> 
> It's a arm7tdmi SoC (GeneralPlus gpl32700 SoC).
> The code is: current Linus' tree + patches for this SoC.
> The patches for this SoC includes:
> irqchip, clocksource, pinctrl, gpio, uart, spi, sd/mmc host drivers.
> I also apply a out-of-tree sdio wifi driver for mt5931 wifi module.

Beats me, sorry - I don't see anything which could cause this in the
arm spinlock implementation, even if the spinlock's storage got
corrupted.

> I can successfully boot and running busybox if using ext2 as root.
> Thus I don't hit "spin_unlock_irq decrement preempt_count failure" if using ext2 as root.
> The storage is a spi nor flash, so I prefer to use jffs2 but then I got
> the hangup.
> 
> BTW, I got below panic today:
> 
> 467: 0
> 470: 0
> 475: 1
> 485: 1
> 487: 2
> 489: 2
> 491: 1
> 494: 1
> 496: 1
> 498: 1
> BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, spi0/30

Which is what appears to have happened here.

I assume earlier kernels worked OK with this config?

If so, all I can suggest is a git bisection search :(

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-01 10:53 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:616 Axel Lin
2013-12-04  8:13 ` Axel Lin
2013-12-04  8:31   ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-04  8:59     ` Axel Lin
2013-12-04 21:32       ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-05  7:12         ` Axel Lin
2013-12-05  7:22           ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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