From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:10:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3A20A.4090102@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268964941.758.21.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On 03/18/10 19:15, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:26 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> I can build/boot 2.6.33 with CONFIG_TRACE/TRACING disabled successfully,
>> but when I enable lots of tracing config options and then boot with
>> ftrace=nop on the kernel command line, I see a GP fault when the parport &
>> parport_pc modules are loading/initializing.
>>
>> It happens in drivers/parport/share.c::parport_register_device(), when that
>> function calls try_module_get().
>>
>> If I comment out the trace_module_get() calls in include/linux/module.h,
>> the kernel boots with no problems.
>>
>> [ 21.852829] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> [ 21.856321] last sysfs file: /sys/module/parport/initstate
>> [ 21.856321] CPU 0
>> [ 21.856321] Pid: 2089, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.33 #11 0HH807/OptiPlex GX620
>> [ 21.856321] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0437671>] [<ffffffffa0437671>] parport_register_device+0xe4/0x48c [parport]
>> [ 21.856321] RSP: 0018:ffff8800765cba78 EFLAGS: 00010283
>> [ 21.856321] RAX: ffff10007b04a3d0 RBX: ffff88007a6a5e30 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> [ 21.856321] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa043d1de RDI: ffff88007a6a5e30
>> [ 21.856321] RBP: ffff8800765cbad8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
>> [ 21.856321] R10: ffffffffa043dff8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffa043d1de
>> [ 21.856321] R13: ffffffffa043d1de R14: ffffffffa045c940 R15: 0000000000000000
>> [ 21.856321] FS: 00007f09cc3fb6f0(0000) GS:ffff880004a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [ 21.856321] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> [ 21.856321] CR2: 0000003fb5ad62c0 CR3: 00000000764f6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
>> [ 21.856321] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> [ 21.856321] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> [ 21.856321] Process modprobe (pid: 2089, threadinfo ffff8800765ca000, task ffff88007664a3d0)
>> [ 21.856321] Stack:
>
>
> Is this fully reproducible at every boot up? I just booted your config
> (no changes) and loaded the parport_pc module with no issues. I even
> added your command line (just modifying root=.. )
Yes, it has failed for me 100% of the time (about 10 boots).
I'm rebuilding to test with Mathieu's request now.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 23:26 2.6.33 GP fault only when built with tracing Randy Dunlap
2010-03-18 23:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-19 0:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-19 0:59 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-03-19 18:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-19 18:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-03-23 15:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-24 1:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-03-24 1:42 ` Li Zefan
2010-03-24 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-24 20:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-20 0:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-19 0:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-19 2:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-19 16:10 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-03-24 2:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] tracing: Reduce overhead of module tracepoints Li Zefan
2010-03-24 2:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Convert some signal events to DEFINE_TRACE Li Zefan
2010-03-24 3:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-24 3:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-02 19:03 ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2010-03-24 2:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Update comments Li Zefan
2010-03-24 3:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-04-02 19:04 ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2010-03-24 3:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] tracing: Reduce overhead of module tracepoints Steven Rostedt
2010-03-24 10:24 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-03-24 23:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-27 2:03 ` [tip:tracing/urgent] tracing: Remove side effect from module tracepoints that caused a GPF tip-bot for Li Zefan
2010-03-27 4:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-03-27 4:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-04-02 19:04 ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
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