[RT] scheduling and oprofile

[Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>]

I've been trying to use oprofile on an RT kernel to look at some
performance issues.  While running I notice the following sent to
the console:

BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: java/0x00000000/4521
caller is rt_mutex_slowlock+0x156/0x1dd
 [<c032051a>] schedule+0x65/0xd2 (8)
 [<c0321338>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0x156/0x1dd (12)
 [<c032142a>] rt_mutex_lock+0x24/0x28 (72)
 [<c0134904>] rt_down_read+0x38/0x3b (20)
 [<c0322a89>] do_page_fault+0xe3/0x52d (12)
 [<c03229a6>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x52d (76)
 [<c01033bb>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 (8)
 [<c01ce6d0>] __copy_from_user_ll+0x55/0x7c (44)
 [<f89be7ef>] dump_user_backtrace+0x2e/0x56 [oprofile] (24)
 [<c0134869>] rt_up_read+0x3e/0x41 (20)
 [<f89be864>] x86_backtrace+0x4a/0x5a [oprofile] (20)
 [<f89bd53a>] oprofile_add_sample+0x73/0x89 [oprofile] (20)
 [<f89beea3>] athlon_check_ctrs+0x22/0x4a [oprofile] (32)
 [<f89be8c5>] nmi_callback+0x18/0x1b [oprofile] (28)
 [<c01041ff>] do_nmi+0x24/0x33 (12)
 [<c0103462>] nmi_stack_correct+0x1d/0x22 (16)

It seems strange to me that oprofile would be calling
'__copy_from_user_ll' in this context.  I can see why the
changes made for RT locking expose this.  But, doesn't this
issue also exist on non-RT (default) kernels?  What happens
when we generate a page fault in this context on non-RT kernels?

-- 
Mike
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