On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:48:39 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 01/14/2013 01:24 PM, Andrew Clayton wrote: [snip] > > > > bash S ffff88013b2b0d00 0 3203 3133 0x00000000 > > ffff880114dabe58 0000000000000082 8000000113558065 > > ffff880114dabfd8 ffff880114dabfd8 0000000000004000 ffff88013b0c5b00 > > ffff88013b2b0d00 ffff880114dabd88 ffffffff8109067d ffffea0004536670 > > ffffea0004536640 Call Trace: > > [<ffffffff8109067d>] ? default_wake_function+0xd/0x10 > > [<ffffffff8108a315>] ? atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x15/0x20 > > [<ffffffff8133d84f>] ? tty_get_pgrp+0x3f/0x50 > > [<ffffffff810819ac>] ? pid_vnr+0x2c/0x30 > > [<ffffffff8133fe54>] ? tty_ioctl+0x7b4/0xbd0 > > [<ffffffff8106bf62>] ? wait_consider_task+0x102/0xaf0 > > [<ffffffff815c00e4>] schedule+0x24/0x70 > > [<ffffffff8106cb24>] do_wait+0x1d4/0x200 > > [<ffffffff8106d9cb>] sys_wait4+0x9b/0xf0 > > [<ffffffff8106b9f0>] ? task_stopped_code+0x50/0x50 > > [<ffffffff815c1ad2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > > qemu-kvm D ffff88011ab8c8b8 0 3345 3203 0x00000000 > > ffff880112129cd8 0000000000000082 ffff880112129c50 > > ffff880112129fd8 ffff880112129fd8 0000000000004000 ffff88013b04ce00 > > ffff880139da1a00 0000000000000000 00000000000280da ffff880112129d38 > > ffffffff810d3300 Call Trace: > > [<ffffffff810d3300>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xf0/0x7c0 > > [<ffffffff811273c6>] ? touch_atime+0x66/0x170 > > [<ffffffff810cdabf>] ? generic_file_aio_read+0x5bf/0x730 > > [<ffffffff815c00e4>] schedule+0x24/0x70 > > [<ffffffff815c0cdd>] rwsem_down_failed_common+0xbd/0x150 > > [<ffffffff815c0da3>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x15 > > [<ffffffff812d1be3>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20 > > [<ffffffff815bf4dd>] ? down_write+0x2d/0x34 > > [<ffffffff810f0724>] vma_adjust+0xe4/0x610 > > [<ffffffff810f0fa4>] vma_merge+0x1b4/0x270 > > [<ffffffff810f1fa6>] do_brk+0x196/0x330 > > [<ffffffff810f2217>] sys_brk+0xd7/0x130 > > [<ffffffff815c1ad2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > This looks like qemu-kvm getting stuck trying to get the anon_vma > lock. > > That leads to the obvious question: what is holding the lock, and/or > failed to release it? > > Do you have any other (qemu-kvm?) processes on your system that have > any code in the VM (or strace/ptrace/...) in the backtrace, that might > be holding this lock? I don't think so. The above was done having just logged into gnome-shell and opened up a couple of gnome-terminals. > Do you have anything in your dmesg showing threads that had a BUG_ON > (and exited) while holding the lock? I never noticed anything like that. The interesting thing is that if I use basically the same kernel but with CONFIG_LOCKDEP enabled, it works fine. Hmm, I wonder if it's the same as this? http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1301.1/02810.html When I get home, I'll try a kernel with those two patches reverted. They seem to be 572043c90db65b45a4efd959db7458edcf6411ad 1b963c81b14509e330e0fe3218b645ece2738dc5 in Linus' tree. CC'd Jiri as well. Cheers, Andrew -- 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