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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Tom Kopec <tek@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkfront: Move blkif_interrupt into a tasklet.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:46:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C802934.2000305@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282546470-5547-2-git-send-email-daniel.stodden@citrix.com>

 On 08/22/2010 11:54 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> Response processing doesn't really belong into hard irq context.
>
> Another potential problem this avoids is that switching interrupt cpu
> affinity in Xen domains can presently lead to event loss, if
> RING_FINAL_CHECK is run from hard irq context.

I just got this warning from a 32-bit pv domain.  I think it may relate
to this change.  The warning is

void blk_start_queue(struct request_queue *q)
{
	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());


Oddly, I only saw this pair once at boot, and after that the system
seemed fine...

[    4.376451] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    4.377415] WARNING: at /home/jeremy/git/linux/block/blk-core.c:337 blk_start_queue+0x20/0x36()
[    4.377415] Modules linked in: xfs exportfs xen_blkfront [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[    4.377415] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32.21 #32
[    4.377415] Call Trace:
[    4.377415]  [<c1039f74>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
[    4.377415]  [<c11b3ae1>] ? blk_start_queue+0x20/0x36
[    4.377415]  [<c1039f98>] warn_slowpath_null+0xd/0x10
[    4.377415]  [<c11b3ae1>] blk_start_queue+0x20/0x36
[    4.377415]  [<edc74712>] kick_pending_request_queues+0x1c/0x2a [xen_blkfront]
[    4.377415]  [<edc74ec4>] blkif_do_interrupt+0x176/0x189 [xen_blkfront]
[    4.377415]  [<c103e063>] tasklet_action+0x63/0xa8
[    4.377415]  [<c103f2d5>] __do_softirq+0xac/0x152
[    4.377415]  [<c103f3ac>] do_softirq+0x31/0x3c
[    4.377415]  [<c103f484>] irq_exit+0x29/0x5c
[    4.377415]  [<c121a1b6>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x29/0x34
[    4.377415]  [<c100a027>] xen_do_upcall+0x7/0xc
[    4.377415]  [<c10023a7>] ? hypercall_page+0x3a7/0x1005
[    4.377415]  [<c10065a9>] ? xen_safe_halt+0x12/0x1f
[    4.377415]  [<c10042cb>] xen_idle+0x27/0x38
[    4.377415]  [<c100877e>] cpu_idle+0x49/0x63
[    4.377415]  [<c14a6427>] rest_init+0x53/0x55
[    4.377415]  [<c179c814>] start_kernel+0x2d4/0x2d9
[    4.377415]  [<c179c0a8>] i386_start_kernel+0x97/0x9e
[    4.377415]  [<c179f478>] xen_start_kernel+0x576/0x57e
[    4.377415] ---[ end trace 0bfb98f0ed515cdb ]---
[    4.377415] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    4.377415] WARNING: at /home/jeremy/git/linux/block/blk-core.c:245 blk_remove_plug+0x20/0x7e()
[    4.377415] Modules linked in: xfs exportfs xen_blkfront [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[    4.377415] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.32.21 #32
[    4.377415] Call Trace:
[    4.377415]  [<c1039f74>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
[    4.377415]  [<c11b3961>] ? blk_remove_plug+0x20/0x7e
[    4.377415]  [<c1039f98>] warn_slowpath_null+0xd/0x10
[    4.377415]  [<c11b3961>] blk_remove_plug+0x20/0x7e
[    4.377415]  [<c11b39ca>] __blk_run_queue+0xb/0x5e
[    4.377415]  [<c11b3af4>] blk_start_queue+0x33/0x36
[    4.377415]  [<edc74712>] kick_pending_request_queues+0x1c/0x2a [xen_blkfront]
[    4.377415]  [<edc74ec4>] blkif_do_interrupt+0x176/0x189 [xen_blkfront]
[    4.377415]  [<c103e063>] tasklet_action+0x63/0xa8
[    4.377415]  [<c103f2d5>] __do_softirq+0xac/0x152
[    4.377415]  [<c103f3ac>] do_softirq+0x31/0x3c
[    4.377415]  [<c103f484>] irq_exit+0x29/0x5c
[    4.377415]  [<c121a1b6>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x29/0x34
[    4.377415]  [<c100a027>] xen_do_upcall+0x7/0xc
[    4.377415]  [<c10023a7>] ? hypercall_page+0x3a7/0x1005
[    4.377415]  [<c10065a9>] ? xen_safe_halt+0x12/0x1f
[    4.377415]  [<c10042cb>] xen_idle+0x27/0x38
[    4.377415]  [<c100877e>] cpu_idle+0x49/0x63
[    4.377415]  [<c14a6427>] rest_init+0x53/0x55
[    4.377415]  [<c179c814>] start_kernel+0x2d4/0x2d9
[    4.377415]  [<c179c0a8>] i386_start_kernel+0x97/0x9e
[    4.377415]  [<c179f478>] xen_start_kernel+0x576/0x57e
[    4.377415] ---[ end trace 0bfb98f0ed515cdc ]---

	J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02 22:46 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 [this message]
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
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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