On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Yuanhan Liu
<yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> commit 20545536cd8ea949c61527b6395ec8c0d2c237b1
> Author: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jul 19 15:22:37 2012 +0300
>
> RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies
>
> Remember that hang I reported a while back on UML. Well
> I'm at it again, and it still hangs and I found why.
>
> I have dprinted jiffies and it never advances during the
> loop at do_xor_speed. There for it is stuck in an endless
> loop. I have also dprinted current_kernel_time() and it
> returns the same constant value as well.
>
> Note that it does usually work on UML, only during
> the modprobe of xor.ko while that test is running. It looks
> like some lucking is preventing the clock from ticking.
>
> However ktime_get_ts does work for me so I changed the code
> as below, so I can work. See how I put several safety
> guards, to never get hangs again.
> And I think my time based approach is more accurate then
> previous system.
>
> UML guys please investigate the jiffies issue? what is
> xor.ko not doing right?
This patch never hit my mailbox...
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
> | | |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
> | boot_successes | 0 |
> | boot_failures | 29 |
> | WARNING:CPU:PID:at_init/main.c:do_one_initcall() | 29 |
> | initcall_calibrate_xor_blocks_returned_with_preemption_imbalance | 29 |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
>
> [ 0.127025] generic_sse: 148.363 MB/sec
> [ 0.127478] xor: using function: prefetch64-sse (152.727 MB/sec)
> [ 0.128017] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 0.128531] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at init/main.c:711 do_one_initcall+0x105/0x115()
> [ 0.129018] initcall calibrate_xor_blocks+0x0/0x144 returned with preemption imbalance
> [ 0.130013] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.130357] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-11285-gb242bff #91
> [ 0.131013] 0000000000000000 ffff88000d0dde00 ffffffff8161acc5 ffff88000d0dde48
> [ 0.132554] ffff88000d0dde38 ffffffff81052de9 ffffffff81000316 ffffffff81a77cfd
> [ 0.133380] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000d0dde98
> [ 0.134213] Call Trace:
> [ 0.134493] [<ffffffff8161acc5>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
> [ 0.135017] [<ffffffff81052de9>] warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0x8e
> [ 0.135654] [<ffffffff81000316>] ? do_one_initcall+0x105/0x115
> [ 0.136015] [<ffffffff81a77cfd>] ? do_xor_speed+0xdd/0xdd
> [ 0.137016] [<ffffffff81052e49>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x49
> [ 0.137628] [<ffffffff810c8382>] ? free_pages+0x51/0x53
> [ 0.138015] [<ffffffff81a77cfd>] ? do_xor_speed+0xdd/0xdd
> [ 0.138623] [<ffffffff81000316>] do_one_initcall+0x105/0x115
> [ 0.139017] [<ffffffff81a59ed6>] kernel_init_freeable+0x115/0x19b
> [ 0.140016] [<ffffffff81a59707>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
> [ 0.140630] [<ffffffff81610ff9>] ? rest_init+0xbd/0xbd
> [ 0.141016] [<ffffffff81611002>] kernel_init+0x9/0xfa
> [ 0.141567] [<ffffffff8162a98c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [ 0.142016] [<ffffffff81610ff9>] ? rest_init+0xbd/0xbd
> [ 0.143028] ---[ end trace 19b4eab334350767 ]---
> [ 0.143530] atomic64 test passed for x86-64 platform with CX8 and with SSE
>
> git bisect start b242bff548c34510fd9b7f0e29b885263dfb8903 5e01dc7b26d9f24f39abace5da98ccbd6a5ceb52 --
> git bisect good 5cbb3d216e2041700231bcfc383ee5f8b7fc8b74 # 09:25 20+ 0 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)
> git bisect good 7e1a1e9378018aeea2c7e8a3dd2ceb1db1523b0b # 09:42 20+ 0 Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-v3.13-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
> git bisect good 4937e2a6f939a41bf811378e80d71f68aa0950c6 # 10:08 20+ 0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
> git bisect good 210e812f036736aeda097d9a6ef84b1f2b334bae # 10:31 20+ 0 perf header: Fix bogus group name
> git bisect good d5bdaf4f68f0590fc481bca54bcaffeb27b75fca # 10:54 20+ 0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha
> git bisect good e630a6bcf18079b2ab6b03d55c9757e8ef6656b6 # 11:03 20+ 0 staging: lustre: fix checkpatch issue regarding pointer coding style
> git bisect good 6449a5811e62ab9587b54feca45c06cfee0e37cd # 11:10 20+ 0 Merge 'btrfs/for-linus' into devel-cairo-x86_64-201311220159
> git bisect good 78103b692e7aa6a8e2ef678c9a3465d6bfe44559 # 11:14 20+ 0 Merge 'staging/opw-next' into devel-cairo-x86_64-201311220159
> git bisect good 7acd71879ce408af2d2ca3cd3ec3a86d0667ceae # 11:24 20+ 0 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem
> git bisect good 2ea4606fd707f05cddce72219a5f90ca471c09d6 # 11:32 20+ 0 drm/msm: add atomic support
> git bisect bad cd7efef070cc5420858c271a9908df3f86cef83b # 11:40 0- 3 {SQUASHME} exofs_ioctl: Fix for deadlock when close of root node
> git bisect bad 13cf7003526891bfb7ad12fc5cff01cf9e734dc2 # 11:43 0- 14 {SPLITME} exofs_ioctl: All the new and external files
> git bisect bad 20545536cd8ea949c61527b6395ec8c0d2c237b1 # 11:46 0- 17 RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies
> git bisect good 4a9a4b3528afce48d3f4b1c07b988040e78112e2 # 11:50 20+ 0 pnfs: Proper delay for NFS4ERR_RECALLCONFLICT in layout_get_done
> # first bad commit: [20545536cd8ea949c61527b6395ec8c0d2c237b1] RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies
> git bisect good 4a9a4b3528afce48d3f4b1c07b988040e78112e2 # 11:52 60+ 0 pnfs: Proper delay for NFS4ERR_RECALLCONFLICT in layout_get_done
> git bisect bad b242bff548c34510fd9b7f0e29b885263dfb8903 # 11:52 0- 29 Merge 'open-osd/exofs_ioctl' into devel-cairo-x86_64-201311220159
> git bisect good 727fb2e90de9b05224b1801b4c21e7fe18506b43 # 12:07 60+ 0 Revert "RFC: do_xor_speed Broken on UML do to jiffies"
> git bisect good 527d1511310a89650000081869260394e20c7013 # 12:26 60+ 0 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
> git bisect good f3fa585afa93230883dc4c259dc03df6234a5e5f # 12:42 60+ 0 Add linux-next specific files for 20131122
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --yliu
--
Thanks,
//richard
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