On Thu, Aug 25 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: libc6.postinst/0x20000000/13229
> > > caller is ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0
> > > [<c029c1f9>] schedule+0x59/0xf0 (8)
> > > [<c029ced9>] ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0 (28)
> > > [<c0221832>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x22/0xa0 (84)
> > > [<c02218ea>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x3a/0x50 (16)
> > > [<c021db84>] exit_io_context+0x64/0x70 (16)
> > > [<c011efda>] do_exit+0x5a/0x3e0 (20)
> > > [<c011f3ca>] do_group_exit+0x2a/0xb0 (24)
> > > [<c0103039>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb (20)
> >
> > Hmm, Ingo I seem to remember you saying that the following construct:
> >
> > local_irq_save(flags);
> > spin_lock(lock);
> >
> > which is equivelant to spin_lock_irqsave() in mainline being illegal
> > in -RT, is that correct? This is what cfq uses right now for an
> > exiting task, as the above trace indicates.
>
> yes, that's correct. Mainline's exit_io_contexts() uses the above
> construct because there's no task_lock_irqsave(current, flags) API.
>
> note that recent -RT kernels are a lot less drastic about these cases
> and print a once-per-bootup warning, not a scary message like above.
> This message should not happen in recent -RT kernels.
>
> The problem was this piece of code in exit_io_contexts():
>
> local_irq_save(flags);
> task_lock(current);
> ioc = current->io_context;
> current->io_context = NULL;
> ioc->task = NULL;
> task_unlock(current);
> local_irq_restore(flags);
>
> i understand the detached use of flags, but i'm also wondering why irqs
> have to be disabled here in the first place? At this point in do_exit()
> we should normally not have any pending IO attached to our io_context.
> What am i missing?
There can quite easily be lots of pending IO for the io_context (and, in
CFQ's case, below cfq_io_contexts), task exiting is completely decoupled
from any pending io.
Then there's the cfq_exit_io_context() locking. I have to ponder this a
bit, I cannot even convince myself that it is currently safe right now.
--
Jens Axboe
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