Re: [scheduler] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000ce50

[Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

Christoph,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:55:29AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> 
> > FYI, this commit seems to convert some kernel boot hang bug into
> > different BUG messages.
> 
> Hmmm. Still a bit confused as to why these messages occur.. Does this
> patch do any good?

Sorry I find that next-20140730 no long show the BUG. So there is no
way to test whether this patch fixed the problem.

Thanks,
Fengguang

> 
> Subject: vmstat ondemand: Fix online/offline races
> 
> Do not allow onlining/offlining while the shepherd task is checking
> for vmstat threads.
> 
> On offlining a processor do the right thing cancelling the vmstat
> worker thread if it exista and also exclude it from the shepherd
> process checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> 
> Index: linux/mm/vmstat.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/vmstat.c	2014-07-30 09:35:54.602662306 -0500
> +++ linux/mm/vmstat.c	2014-07-30 09:43:07.109037043 -0500
> @@ -1317,6 +1317,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
>  {
>  	int cpu;
> 
> +	get_online_cpus();
>  	/* Check processors whose vmstat worker threads have been disabled */
>  	for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off)
>  		if (need_update(cpu) &&
> @@ -1325,6 +1326,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
>  			schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu),
>  				__round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval, cpu));
> 
> +	put_online_cpus();
> 
>  	schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd,
>  		round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
> @@ -1380,8 +1382,8 @@ static int vmstat_cpuup_callback(struct
>  		break;
>  	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
>  	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN:
> -		if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off))
> -			cancel_delayed_work_sync(&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu));
> +		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu));
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off);
>  		break;
>  	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
>  	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED_FROZEN: