Re: Oops on aoe module removal

Ed Cashin
2013-01-03T19:58:07Z

On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On 2013-01-03 20:28, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> Lines: 75
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:15:35PM -0600, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> ...
>>>>>>>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> ...
>>>>>>>>> [699170.611997] aoe: AoE v47 initialised.
>> ...
>>>>>>>>> [699231.308319] WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:62 __list_del_entry+0x82/0xd0()
>>>>>>>>> [699231.312031] Hardware name: S5000VSA
>>>>>>>>> [699231.315658] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff880009fa37e8, but was ffffffff81c79c00
>>>>>>>>> [699231.319352] Modules linked in: aoe(-) ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables lockd sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc vfat fat binfmt_misc iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support vhost_net lpc_ich radeon tun macvtap mfd_core serio_raw coretemp i2c_algo_bit ttm i5000_edac macvlan drm_kms_helper e1000e edac_core microcode i5k_amb shpchp i2c_i801 drm kvm_intel i2c_core kvm ioatdma dca raid1
>>>>>>>>> [699231.336259] Pid: 8584, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 #1
>>>>>>>>> [699231.340561] Call Trace:
>>>>>>>>> [699231.344865] [<ffffffff8105c8ef>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.349212] [<ffffffff8105c9e6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
>>>>>>>>> [699231.353595] [<ffffffff812eee52>] __list_del_entry+0x82/0xd0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.357954] [<ffffffff812eeeb1>] list_del+0x11/0x40
>>>>>>>>> [699231.362319] [<ffffffff812f6458>] percpu_counter_destroy+0x28/0x50
>>>>>>>>> [699231.366712] [<ffffffff8114c513>] bdi_destroy+0x43/0x140
>>>>>>>>> [699231.371127] [<ffffffff812be20c>] blk_release_queue+0x8c/0xc0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.375454] [<ffffffff812dc322>] kobject_cleanup+0x82/0x1b0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.379675] [<ffffffff812dc1ab>] kobject_put+0x2b/0x60
>>>>>>>>> [699231.383851] [<ffffffff812b80a5>] blk_put_queue+0x15/0x20
>>>>>>>>> [699231.387899] [<ffffffff812bc659>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xc9/0xe0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.391794] [<ffffffffa01f53f5>] aoedev_freedev+0x135/0x150 [aoe]
>>>>>>>>> [699231.395668] [<ffffffffa01f59a5>] aoedev_exit+0x65/0x80 [aoe]
>>>>>>>>> [699231.399493] [<ffffffffa01f5afe>] aoe_exit+0x2e/0x40 [aoe]
>>>>>>>>> [699231.403273] [<ffffffff810bdefe>] sys_delete_module+0x16e/0x2d0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.407119] [<ffffffff8161db56>] ? __schedule+0x3c6/0x7a0
>>>>>>>>> [699231.411050] [<ffffffff8119054a>] ? sys_write+0x4a/0x90
>>>>>>>>> [699231.415033] [<ffffffff81627329>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>>>>>>> [699231.419117] ---[ end trace 9e1558af1964b569 ]---
>>>>>>>>> [699231.423248] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>
>> The blk_alloc_queue has already done a bdi_init, so do not bdi_init again in
>> aoeblk_gdalloc.
>>
>> The patch below applies to v3.5.6, with its v47 aoe driver. On my system it
>> eliminates the list_del corruption messages.
>
> Since the patch doesn't apply to current -git, does the problem not
> exist there?

The original post is about an older kernel with the v47 aoe driver. The current mainline has a v81 aoe driver, so the patch for v3.5.6 isn't expected to apply to the mainline.

I'm currently investigating the state of the mainline with relation to this issue.

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Ed Cashin
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