Hi After Frank posted a patch i managed the 3.6.7-rt18 kernel to boot: There are some local platform modifications for arm mach-pcm043 but nothing which should cause this. The kernel got renamed so that the hw debugger works. HR_TIMERS are disabled in my config. The kernel continues to work after that but it fails later on more below on that. Best regards Tim PS: This mail went accidentially to lkml and i was wondering that it is not reaching the linux-rt-users mailing list. But as the s/n ratio is much better on this list, i just resend it over here... NET: Registered protocol family 16 DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.42pmx-rt18-00015-gdc97b0a-dirty #48 Not tainted <-- this is really 3.6.7-rt18 changed for hw debugger --------------------------------- inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-W} usage. kworker/u:0/13 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes: (rcu_kthread_wq.lock.lock.wait_lock){?.+...}, at: [<c0259720>] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x44/0x208 {HARDIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [<c004faac>] mark_lock+0x274/0x3c8 [<c004fd1c>] mark_irqflags+0x11c/0x1a4 [<c0050380>] __lock_acquire+0x5dc/0x814 [<c0050abc>] lock_acquire+0x68/0x7c [<c025a35c>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x50 [<c0259720>] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x44/0x208 [<c0259c9c>] rt_spin_lock+0x1c/0x44 [<c0039038>] prepare_to_wait+0x28/0x70 [<c0063694>] rcu_kthread+0x68/0x1b0 [<c0038a88>] kthread+0x90/0x9c [<c0020e38>] do_exit+0x0/0x2e0 irq event stamp: 46 hardirqs last enabled at (45): [<c025a5f4>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x7c hardirqs last disabled at (46): [<c000dad4>] __irq_svc+0x34/0x98 softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c001a1e4>] copy_process+0x1f4/0xb78 softirqs last disabled at (0): [< (null)>] (null) other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(rcu_kthread_wq.lock.lock.wait_lock); <Interrupt> lock(rcu_kthread_wq.lock.lock.wait_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 2 locks held by kworker/u:0/13: #0: (&p->alloc_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c0019e9c>] mm_release+0xd0/0xf8 #1: (&(&(&q->lock)->lock)->wait_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c025997c>] rt_spin_lock_slowunlock+0x14/0x70 stack backtrace: Backtrace: [<c00114e8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c025793c>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:c041e414 r5:c78735d0 r4:c7873200 r3:c7873200 [<c0257924>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c004f584>] (print_usage_bug+0x180/0x1c8) [<c004f404>] (print_usage_bug+0x0/0x1c8) from [<c004f68c>] (mark_lock_irq+0xc0/0x26c) [<c004f5cc>] (mark_lock_irq+0x0/0x26c) from [<c004fad8>] (mark_lock+0x2a0/0x3c8) [<c004f838>] (mark_lock+0x0/0x3c8) from [<c004fc84>] (mark_irqflags+0x84/0x1a4) [<c004fc00>] (mark_irqflags+0x0/0x1a4) from [<c0050380>] (__lock_acquire+0x5dc/0x814) r5:c7873200 r4:c036499c [<c004fda4>] (__lock_acquire+0x0/0x814) from [<c0050abc>] (lock_acquire+0x68/0x7c) [<c0050a54>] (lock_acquire+0x0/0x7c) from [<c025a35c>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x50) r6:00000003 r5:c0259720 r4:c036498c [<c025a31c>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x50) from [<c0259720>] (rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x44/0x208) r5:c7873200 r4:c036498c [<c02596dc>] (rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x0/0x208) from [<c0259c9c>] (rt_spin_lock+0x1c/0x44) [<c0259c80>] (rt_spin_lock+0x0/0x44) from [<c00405ec>] (__wake_up+0x24/0x4c) r5:00000001 r4:c036498c [<c00405c8>] (__wake_up+0x0/0x4c) from [<c0063824>] (invoke_rcu_callbacks+0x34/0x40) r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:c7873200 [<c00637f0>] (invoke_rcu_callbacks+0x0/0x40) from [<c006443c>] (rcu_check_callbacks+0x8c/0xc8) [<c00643b0>] (rcu_check_callbacks+0x0/0xc8) from [<c0029724>] (update_process_times+0x48/0x54) r4:c7873200 r3:c7873200 [<c00296dc>] (update_process_times+0x0/0x54) from [<c004b5cc>] (tick_periodic+0xbc/0xd4) r6:c0360740 r5:c78090c0 r4:c037cd24 r3:20000013 [<c004b510>] (tick_periodic+0x0/0xd4) from [<c004b604>] (tick_handle_periodic+0x20/0x90) r4:c03607c0 r3:c7874000 [<c004b5e4>] (tick_handle_periodic+0x0/0x90) from [<c0018894>] (mxc_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x38) [<c001886c>] (mxc_timer_interrupt+0x0/0x38) from [<c005e750>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x60/0x1b0) [<c005e6f0>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x0/0x1b0) from [<c005e8e4>] (handle_irq_event+0x44/0x64) [<c005e8a0>] (handle_irq_event+0x0/0x64) from [<c0061074>] (handle_level_irq+0xd0/0xe8) r6:c7875e78 r5:c7809118 r4:c78090c0 r3:00020000 [<c0060fa4>] (handle_level_irq+0x0/0xe8) from [<c005e0b0>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) r5:00000000 r4:0000002d [<c005e088>] (generic_handle_irq+0x0/0x38) from [<c000e76c>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) r4:0000002d r3:00000050 [<c000e704>] (handle_IRQ+0x0/0x8c) from [<c00084c8>] (avic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x48) r5:0000ffff r4:c0375c10 [<c000848c>] (avic_handle_irq+0x0/0x48) from [<c000dae4>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x98) Exception stack(0xc7875e78 to 0xc7875ec0) 5e60: 00000001 c78735b8 5e80: 00000000 00000000 20000013 c7840388 20000013 0000000f 00000008 00000000 5ea0: 00000000 c7875ed4 c7875e58 c7875ec0 c005129c c025a5f8 20000013 ffffffff r6:ffffffff r5:20000013 r4:c025a5f8 r3:c7873200 [<c025a5b0>] (_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x0/0x7c) from [<c0040ffc>] (try_to_wake_up+0x140/0x164) r5:c7840388 r4:00000001 [<c0040ebc>] (try_to_wake_up+0x0/0x164) from [<c004106c>] (wake_up_lock_sleeper+0x18/0x1c) r8:80000013 r7:00000001 r6:c7847cc8 r5:c7874000 r4:c7847dcc r3:00000001 [<c0041054>] (wake_up_lock_sleeper+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0055a20>] (rt_mutex_wake_waiter+0x20/0x30) [<c0055a00>] (rt_mutex_wake_waiter+0x0/0x30) from [<c0055ad4>] (wakeup_next_waiter+0xa4/0xac) [<c0055a30>] (wakeup_next_waiter+0x0/0xac) from [<c02599c4>] (rt_spin_lock_slowunlock+0x5c/0x70) r8:00000000 r7:00000013 r6:00000000 r5:c7874000 r4:c7847dcc r3:c7847dec [<c0259968>] (rt_spin_lock_slowunlock+0x0/0x70) from [<c0259d00>] (rt_spin_unlock+0x28/0x2c) r5:c7847dc8 r4:c7847dcc [<c0259cd8>] (rt_spin_unlock+0x0/0x2c) from [<c0040554>] (complete+0x4c/0x54) r4:c7847dcc r3:00000000 [<c0040508>] (complete+0x0/0x54) from [<c0019eb4>] (mm_release+0xe8/0xf8) r5:c78734d4 r4:c7873200 [<c0019dcc>] (mm_release+0x0/0xf8) from [<c001f69c>] (exit_mm+0x20/0x110) r6:00000001 r5:c7873200 r4:00000000 [<c001f67c>] (exit_mm+0x0/0x110) from [<c0020ff8>] (do_exit+0x1c0/0x2e0) r7:00000013 r6:00000001 r5:00000000 r4:c7873200 [<c0020e38>] (do_exit+0x0/0x2e0) from [<c008ce74>] (unlock_slab_and_free_delayed.clone.47+0xc0/0xd0) L210 cache controller enabled l2x0: 8 ways, CACHE_ID 0x4100004b, AUX_CTRL 0x00030024, Cache size: 131072 B bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 SCSI subsystem initialized Switching to clocksource mxc_timer1 NET: Registered protocol family 2 TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 6, 360448 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) TCP: reno registered UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 3, 49152 bytes) UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 3, 49152 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 1 msgmni has been set to 236 io scheduler noop registered (default) start plist test --- snip Later on the kernel locks up without any output on serial console. The hardware debugger gives me the following call stack: Transcribed by hand after the panic stuff: BUG_ON(rt_mutex_owner(lock) == self)) rt_spint_lock_fastlock(... __wake_up( invoke_rcu_callbacks rcu_check_callbacks update_process_times tick_periodic tick_handle_periodic handle_irq_event_percpu handle_irq_event -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html