From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] netconsole broken by scheduler updates
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:48:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306403308.1200.44.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDE1B7D.7080707@free.fr>
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:21 +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, netconsole was broken by some scheduler updates. Kernel hangs
> on boot near the network card initialization. I noticed that it does
> hang just where a "inconsistent lock state" message normally appears.
>
> I did a bisection : e4a52bcb9a18142d79e231b6733cabdbf2e67c1f is the
> first bad commit.
> commit e4a52bcb9a18142d79e231b6733cabdbf2e67c1f
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Tue Apr 5 17:23:54 2011 +0200
>
> sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
>
>
> Before this commit, kernel was booting succesfully despite the
> "inconsistent lock state" message. After this commit, the kernel does
> hang on boot, I have to push the reset button.
Do you have CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y, and do you get an NMI splat
after some 10 seconds? It would be interesting to see where its stuck.
Also, are you very _very_ sure that lockdep message is a false positive?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 9:21 [BUG] netconsole broken by scheduler updates Laurent Riffard
2011-05-26 9:48 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-05-26 10:35 ` Laurent Riffard
2011-05-26 16:12 ` Laurent Riffard
2011-05-26 16:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-03 21:15 ` Laurent Riffard
2011-05-26 20:18 ` David Miller
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