Re: WARNING in mark_lock

Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-25T14:01:38Z

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 02:07:42PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:06 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:03:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:20:56AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, syzbot wrote:
> > >
> > > > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > > > >
> > > > > HEAD commit: dc636f5d Add linux-next specific files for 20190620
> > > > > git tree: linux-next
> > > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=162b68b1a00000
> >
> > syzcaller folks; why doesn't the above link include the actual kernel
> > boot, but only the userspace bits starting at syzcaller start?
> >
> > I was trying to figure out the setup, but there's not enough information
> > here.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Usually there is too much after-boot output, so boot output is evicted
> anyway even if was preserved initially. Also usually it's not
> important (this is the first time this comes up). And also
> structurally boot is a separate procedure in syzkaller VM abstraction,
> a machine is booted, output is analyzed for potential crashes, then
> the machine is considered in a known good state and then some workload
> is started as a separate procedure and new output capturing starts
> from this point again.

Ah, for my own machines I spool all serial console output to a file,
everything is preserved until logrotate kills it after a week or so.

There is no distinction between boot and anything else, everything that
goes to serial (and I make sure everything does) lands together.

> What info are you interested in? Can if be obtained after boot?

I was interested in the kernel commandline; and in particular the
nohz_full configuration if any.