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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: uart_startup: GFP_KERNEL allocation with IRQs disabled
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:37:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501B9BF1.2050006@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120803014600.GA7886@localhost>

On 08/03/2012 03:46 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi,

> The IRQ should be disabled somewhere in the path walk, which makes
> the GFP_KERNEL allocation in uart_startup() no longer valid..
> 
> [    0.499537] kworker/u:1 (29) used greatest stack depth: 7156 bytes left
> [    0.500947] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.501445] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x86/0xb2()
> [    0.502413] Modules linked in:
> [    0.502766] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.5.0-01258-g1ade992 #182
> [    0.503419] Call Trace:
...
> [    0.504381]  [<c1079e7d>] get_zeroed_page+0xd/0xf
> [    0.504381]  [<c10f976f>] uart_startup.part.8+0x46/0x152
> [    0.504381]  [<c10f745f>] ? tty_port_tty_set+0x37/0x3c
> [    0.504381]  [<c10fa175>] uart_open+0xc9/0x10b
> [    0.504381]  [<c10fa0ac>] ? uart_suspend_port+0x229/0x229
> [    0.504381]  [<c10f1bc2>] tty_open+0x26b/0x3d3
> [    0.504381]  [<c109872a>] chrdev_open+0xf7/0x117

This does not make sense to me. I would not blame TTY/serial for this.
There is somebody who forgot to enable interrupts somewhere. Could you
enable DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP? It might trigger earlier revealing us the
culprit.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03  1:46 uart_startup: GFP_KERNEL allocation with IRQs disabled Fengguang Wu
2012-08-03  9:37 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2012-08-03  9:51   ` Fengguang Wu
2012-08-03 10:10   ` Al Viro

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