On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:22:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:42:14 +0800 Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:18:41AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/
> > >
> > > 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6.
> >
> >
> > This bug appears in 2.6.23-rc3-mm1, too.
>
> hm, there isn't much info here.
>
> > The message:
> >
> > [ 3267.844826] NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU 0
> > [ 3267.849515] CPU 0
> > [ 3267.851525] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables nf_nat_tftp nf_nat_ftp nf_nat nf_conntrack_tftp nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack nfnetlink fan ac battery ipv6 eeprom lm85 hwmon_vid i2c_core tun fuse kvm snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd sg soundcore snd_page_alloc thermal sr_mod pcspkr evdev button processor cdrom
> > [ 3267.889547] Pid: 13507, comm: gcc Not tainted 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 #4
> > [ 3267.895442] RIP: 0033:[<00002ab84e34cd44>] [<00002ab84e34cd44>]
> > [ 3267.901438] RSP: 002b:00007fff5c9e03f8 EFLAGS: 00000287
> > [ 3267.906726] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fff5c9e0580 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > [ 3267.913833] RDX: 0000000000000013 RSI: 00007fff5c9e0680 RDI: 00000000012a7010
> > [ 3267.920939] RBP: 00007fff5c9e0550 R08: 0000000000000050 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [ 3267.928045] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000012a7410 R12: 0000000000000002
> > [ 3267.935151] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: 000000000000001f
> > [ 3267.942258] FS: 00002ab84f144170(0000) GS:ffffffff814f3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [ 3267.950317] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [ 3267.956038] CR2: 00002ab84e3a7430 CR3: 000000000d618000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [ 3267.963144] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [ 3267.970250] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [ 3267.977357] Process gcc (pid: 13507, threadinfo ffff81000ebe6000, task ffff810008b849d0)
> > [ 3267.985416]
> > [ 3267.997480] Unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000fffffffe RIP:
> > [ 3268.002082] [<00000000fffffffe>]
> > [ 3268.007827] PGD ea85067 PUD 0
>
> Looks like it oopsed in the middle of handling an NMI watchdog expiry,
> perhaps.
>
> > [ 3268.010887] Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> > [ 3268.014035] last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:04.0/resource
> > [ 3268.021662] CPU 0
> > [ 3268.023674] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables nf_nat_tftp nf_nat_ftp nf_nat nf_conntrack_tftp nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack nfnetlink fan ac battery ipv6 eeprom lm85 hwmon_vid i2c_core tun fuse kvm snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd sg soundcore snd_page_alloc thermal sr_mod pcspkr evdev button processor cdrom
> > [ 3268.061688] Pid: 13507, comm: gcc Not tainted 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 #4
> > [ 3268.067584] RIP: 0010:[<00000000fffffffe>] [<00000000fffffffe>]
> > [ 3268.073578] RSP: 0000:ffffffff8157ce38 EFLAGS: 00010296
> > [ 3268.078867] RAX: 0000000000002710 RBX: ffff810009787050 RCX: ffff8100036788e0
> > [ 3268.085973] RDX: 000000000000018d RSI: ffffffff810ba000 RDI: ffff810009787080
> > [ 3268.093080] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [ 3268.100185] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff810008b849d0
> > [ 3268.107293] R13: ffff810008b850d0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffff8157cf58
> > [ 3268.114399] FS: 00002ab84f144170(0000) GS:ffffffff814f3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [ 3268.122455] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > [ 3268.128178] CR2: 00000000fffffffe CR3: 0000000006bfd000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [ 3268.135283] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [ 3268.142388] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [ 3268.149495] Process gcc (pid: 13507, threadinfo ffff81000ebe6000, task ffff810008b849d0)
> > [ 3268.157552] last branch before last exception/interrupt
> > [ 3268.162753] from [<ffffffff811b1843>] serial_in+0x23/0x80
> > [ 3268.168316] to [<ffffffff811b1832>] serial_in+0x12/0x80
>
> That's interensting. serial_in(). We have had NMI watchdog expiries when
> the kernel is printing a large amount of stuff out a slow serial port with
> interrutps disabled. But I thought we'd pretty much plugged those problems
> by sprinkling touch_nmi_watchdog() in various places.
>
> Do you think this is what was happening on your system?
Very likely. I'm running linux with cmdline
"root=/dev/sda1 ro nmi_watchdog=1 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0",
and doing a lot of printks at the time ;-)
Thank you,
Fengguang
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