On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:26:42AM -0400, Doug Chapman wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 22:37 +0900, Horms wrote: > > > I was also seeing a strange problem relating to the > > vector domain patch which seemed to be causing > > corruption of vectors_in_migration, which caused migrate_irqs() > > to emmit suprious IRQ errors (when called by kexec). > > > > I'll try and confirm that this patch soles the problem that > > I was seeing tomorrow. > > > > You may also want to try this patch: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03113.html Hi Doug, Hi Ishimatsu-san, I've tested both of these patches against my problem, and I notice that they have both been incoporated into Linus's tree. It seems that "vector-domain - handle assign_irq_vector(AUTO_ASSIGN)" (8f5ad1a8227aa110d633b5ed04dde535381c16c7) had no effect on the problem that I was seeing. But "vector-domain - fix vector_table" (6ffbc82351c62eeeeaeb9e817ddf93049353493d) appears to resolve the problem. As I spent quite a lot of time examining this problem I'll put my findings below, on the off chance they are of use to someone in the future. In my .bss I see that vector_table is right next to vectors_in_migration, so it seems to make a lot of sense that inapropriate access to vector_table was corrupting vectors_in_migration. Furthermore, I added farily large array, vectors_in_migration_guard between vectors_in_migration and vector_table and the problem went away, wich seems to futher pack up the coruption caused by access to vector_table idea. a000000100587eb8 <vectors_in_migration>: ... a0000001005884b8 <vector_table>: ... I guess that if CPU_HOTPLUG was disabled then some other table would be corrupted, perhaps one that is accessed much more often than vectors_in_migration. For the record, the IRQ errors on kexec were being caused by fixup_irqs() making inapropriate calls to generic_handle_irq() due to the corruption of vectors_in_migration. fixup_irqs() is indirectly called by cpu_down(). The log on a system with NR_CPUS=4 is below: # do_kexec Kexec: Linux->Linux Create ramdisk 19296 /tmp/initramfs_data.cpio kexec-ia64 -l "/boot/vmlinux-ia64-kexec.gz" \ --initrd=/tmp/initramfs_data.cpio \ --append="NAME=rx2620 ip=on loglevel=8 console=tty0 console=uart,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8" Kexec kexec-ia64 -e Starting new kernel ifdown: socket: Function not implemented irq 318, desc: a00000010050cb00, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0 ->handle_irq(): a000000100437c80, __end_rodata+0x34d8/0x13858 ->chip(): a000000100563848, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x80 ->action(): 0000000000000000 IRQ_DISABLED set Unexpected irq vector 0x13e on CPU 1! irq 344, desc: a00000010050d800, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0 ->handle_irq(): a000000100437c80, __end_rodata+0x34d8/0x13858 ->chip(): a000000100563848, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x80 ->action(): 0000000000000000 IRQ_DISABLED set Unexpected irq vector 0x158 on CPU 1! irq 346, desc: a00000010050d900, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0 ->handle_irq(): a000000100437c80, __end_rodata+0x34d8/0x13858 ->chip(): a000000100563848, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x80 ->action(): 0000000000000000 IRQ_DISABLED set Unexpected irq vector 0x15a on CPU 1! irq 350, desc: a00000010050db00, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0 ->handle_irq(): a000000100437c80, __end_rodata+0x34d8/0x13858 ->chip(): a000000100563848, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x80 ->action(): 0000000000000000 IRQ_DISABLED set Unexpected irq vector 0x15e on CPU 1! CPU 1 is now offline Linux version 2.6.23-rc1-kexec-ge4903fb5-dirty (horms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.4.5) #173 SMP Thu Jul 26 11:36:46 JST 2007 -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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