Re: crash with 2.6.22.1 crash:ll_rw_blk.c blk_remove_plug()

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>> On 7/23/07, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 22 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>>>> Hi Walter,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for reporting this.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/22/07, walter harms <wharms@bfs.de> wrote:
>>>>> hello all,
>>>>> on my asus notebook tm620 there is a crash with 2.6.22 and 2.6.21
>>>> Did this happen when you were resuming from a suspend-to-ram/disk?
>>>> [ I ask because I see swsusp in the trace below, linux-pm added to Cc: ]
>>>>
>>>>> ....
>>>>> Using IPI Shortcut mode
>>>>> WARNING: at block/ll_rw_blk.c:1575 blk_remove_plug()
>>>>>  [<c01ac87e>] blk_remove_plug+0x36/0x5a
>>>>>  [<c01ac8b6>] __generic_unplug_device+0x14/0x1f
>>>>>  [<c01ad587>] __make_request+0x39b/0x49c
>>>>>  [<c01abc8c>] generic_make_request+0x228/0x255
>>>>>  [<c01adb54>] submit_bio+0xa5/0xac
>>>>>  [<c013e233>] mempool_alloc+0x37/0xae
>>>>>  [<c01314dc>] submit+0xc2/0x11d
>>>>>  [<c0131585>] bio_read_page+0x24/0x27
>>>>>  [<c013188b>] swsusp_check+0x4f/0xaf
>>>>>  [<c012f6c2>] software_resume+0x5f/0x108
>>>>>  [<c037867e>] kernel_init+0xb0/0x212
>>>>>  [<c0103a16>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
>>>>>  [<c03785ce>] kernel_init+0x0/0x212
>>>>>  [<c03785ce>] kernel_init+0x0/0x212
>>>>>  [<c010465b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>>>>>  =======================
>>>> Surprising, that's a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) but IRQs are disabled
>>>> alright on that codepath. OTOH, __make_request() is heavily goto-driven,
>>>> uses the non-save/restore variants of spin_lock_irq, and does not even
>>>> balance locks / unlocks for some error paths ... gaah.
>>> __make_request() must be called from process context, hence
>>> spin_lock_irq() is perfectly already and the fastest way to go. And of
>>> course the locking is balanced! So please save your 'gaah's for code
>>> you actually took the time to try and understand.
>> You're right, I didn't really look at that code for long (it even 
>> explicitly
>> comments about what's going with the locking in there!) sorry about
>> that.
>>
>> [ Off-topic: BTW does every call to __make_request() end up in
>> blk_remove_plug()? Since you're explicitly making the assumption
>> that it *must* be called from process context (and hence the use of
>> the non-save/restore variants), you could consider putting a
>> WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) over there, and perhaps a WARN_ON
>> (!spin_is_locked(queue_lock)) in blk_remove_plug() instead, and
>> other such similar functions that currently have the !irqs_disabled
>> check. This way you'd effectively cover _both_ the assertions,
>> and in appropriate places -- just a suggestion. ]
> 
> No, blk_remove_plug() will only be called for sync bios, or where we
> have to wait for request allocation (which will unplug the device).
> 
> __generic_make_request() already does a might_sleep() check, so it
> should catch this already.
> 
>>> But it does look like unbalanced irq disable/enable calls. I'd guess in
>>> the suspend/resume path. Obviously something more esoteric, since this
>>> is the first such report for 2.6.22, so like some not-very-used driver
>>> for instance.
>> Now that I do look at the codepath, it does seem surprising irqs were
>> not disabled there. There are a bunch of calls to _other_ functions
>> between the spin_lock_irq and the blk_remove_plug via
>> __generic_unplug_device that would also have complained about
>> !irqs_disabled.
>>
>> Walter, does this happen reproducibly?
> 
> As I previously wrote, it's like some of the device power up or resume
> routines that botch the irq enable/disable stuff. It'd be interesting to
> start stripping down the config until the warning goes away - or enable
> CONFIG_PM_DEBUG which may help as well.
> 

hi all,
i have recompiled the kernel with CONFIG_PM_DEBUG but that resulted in nothing
more that a magic number after the backtrace, does anyone care ?

I played with hda=c,h,s to overcome the detection problem but no success here
beside some "TSC instability". i did not try this with a working kernel, it is only
to give you all information i have.

re,
 wh



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