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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: imammedo <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] blkfront: Move blkif_interrupt into a tasklet.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:38:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110817023827.GA21468@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313494014833-4704111.post@n5.nabble.com>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:26:55AM -0700, imammedo wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 
> > Have you tried bisecting to see when this particular problem appeared? 
> > It looks to me like something is accidentally re-enabling interrupts -
> > perhaps a stack overrun is corrupting the "flags" argument between a
> > spin_lock_irqsave()/restore pair. 
> > 
> > Is it only on 32-bit kernels?
> > 
>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [604001.659925] WARNING: at block/blk-core.c:239 blk_start_queue+0x70/0x80()
> [604001.659964] Modules linked in: nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl
> sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
> nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables xen_netfront
> pcspkr [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> [604001.660147] Pid: 336, comm: udevd Tainted: G        W   3.0.0+ #50
> [604001.660181] Call Trace:
> [604001.660209]  [<c045c512>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
> [604001.660243]  [<c06643a0>] ? blk_start_queue+0x70/0x80
> [604001.660275]  [<c06643a0>] ? blk_start_queue+0x70/0x80
> [604001.660310]  [<c045c562>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
> [604001.660343]  [<c06643a0>] blk_start_queue+0x70/0x80
> [604001.660379]  [<c075e231>] kick_pending_request_queues+0x21/0x30
> [604001.660417]  [<c075e42f>] blkif_interrupt+0x19f/0x2b0
> ...
>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> I've debugged a bit blk-core warning and can say:
>   - Yes, It is 32-bit PAE kernel and happens only with it so far.
>   - Affects PV xen guest, bare-metal and kvm configs are not affected.
>   - Upstream kernel is affected as well.
>   - Reproduces on xen 4.1.1 and 3.1.2 hosts

And the dom0 is 2.6.18 right? This problem is not present
when you use a 3.0 dom0?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23  6:54 Fix the occasional xen-blkfront deadlock, when irqbalancing Daniel Stodden
2010-08-23  6:54 ` [PATCH] blkfront: Move blkif_interrupt into a tasklet Daniel Stodden
2010-08-23  7:01   ` Daniel Stodden
2010-09-02 22:46   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-02 23:08     ` Daniel Stodden
2010-09-07  1:39       ` blktap lockdep hiccup Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-07  1:46         ` Daniel Stodden
2010-09-08  2:03       ` [PATCH] blkfront: Move blkif_interrupt into a tasklet Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-08  2:21         ` Daniel Stodden
2010-09-08  6:37           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-23 16:08     ` Andrew Jones
2010-09-23 16:23       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-23 16:38         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-23 18:36           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-24  7:14             ` Andrew Jones
2010-09-24 18:50               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-27  7:41                 ` Andrew Jones
2010-09-27  9:46                   ` Daniel Stodden
2010-09-27 10:21                     ` Andrew Jones
2011-08-16 11:26             ` imammedo
2011-08-16 14:57               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-17  2:38               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-08-17  7:30                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-17  9:07                 ` Igor Mammedov
2011-08-24 15:36                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-24 16:36                     ` Igor Mammedov
2011-08-29 19:46                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-31 23:47                         ` [PATCH] xen: x86_32: do not enable iterrupts when returning from exception in interrupt context Igor Mammedov
2011-08-31 22:37                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-01  8:19                             ` Igor Mammedov
2011-09-01 11:46                             ` [PATCH v2] " Igor Mammedov
2011-09-01 15:45                               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-01 16:46                               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-02  8:18                                 ` Igor Mammedov
2011-09-02 13:40                                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-02 14:01                                     ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Mammedov
2011-09-02 14:47                                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-06  9:16                                         ` Igor Mammedov
2011-09-02  9:19                               ` Igor Mammedov
2011-09-02 10:00                                 ` Keir Fraser
2010-08-23 21:09 ` Fix the occasional xen-blkfront deadlock, when irqbalancing Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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