On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:43:09PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/14/2011 02:25 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 04:48:16PM -0600, Nate Custer wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am struggling with repeatable full hardware locks when running 8-12 KVM vms. At some point before the hard lock I get a inconsistent lock state warning. An example of this can be found here: > > > > > > http://pastebin.com/8wKhgE2C > > > > > > After that the server continues to run for a while and then starts its death spiral. When it reaches that point it fails to log anything further to the disk, but by attaching a console I have been able to get a stack trace documenting the final implosion: > > > > > > http://pastebin.com/PbcN76bd > > > > > > All of the cores end up hung and the server stops responding to all input, including SysRq commands. > > > > > > I have seen this behavior on two machines (dual E5606 running Fedora 16) both passed cpuburnin testing and memtest86 scans without error. > > > > > > I have reproduced the crash and stack traces from a Fedora debugging kernel - 3.1.2-1 and with a vanilla 3.1.4 kernel. > > > > Busted hardware, apparently. Can you reproduce these issues with the > > same workload on different hardware? > > I don't think it's hardware related. The second trace (in the first > paste) is called during swap, so GFP_FS is set. The first one is not, > so GFP_FS is clear. Lockdep is worried about the following scenario: > > acpi_early_init() is called > calls pcpu_alloc(), which takes pcpu_alloc_mutex > eventually, calls kmalloc(), or some other allocation function > no memory, so swap > call try_to_free_pages() > submit_bio() > blk_throtl_bio() > blkio_alloc_blkg_stats() > alloc_percpu() > pcpu_alloc(), which takes pcpu_alloc_mutex > deadlock > > It's a little unlikely that acpi_early_init() will OOM, but lockdep > doesn't know that. Other callers of pcpu_alloc() could trigger the same > thing. > > When lockdep says > > [ 5839.924953] other info that might help us debug this: > [ 5839.925396] Possible unsafe locking scenario: > [ 5839.925397] > [ 5839.925840] CPU0 > [ 5839.926063] ---- > [ 5839.926287] lock(pcpu_alloc_mutex); > [ 5839.926533] <Interrupt> > [ 5839.926756] lock(pcpu_alloc_mutex); > [ 5839.926986] > > It really means > > <swap, set GFP_FS> > > GFP_FS simply marks the beginning of a nested, unrelated context that > uses the same thread, just like an interrupt. Kudos to lockdep for > catching that. > > I think the allocation in blkio_alloc_blkg_stats() should be moved out > of the I/O path into some init function. Copying Jens. The other traces have apparently bogus NMI interrupts, but it might be a software bug, OK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
