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    SubjectRe: 2.6.25-mm1
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    On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:14:29 -0400 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:02:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:13:43 -0400 Joseph Fannin <jfannin@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:47:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25/2.6.25-mm1/
    > > > >
    > > > > I've been seeing the following backtraces since 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 -- at
    > > > > least, since that's the earliest -mm I've built in a while. I don't
    > > > > get the same in mainline.
    > > > >
    > > > > No idea who to CC:
    > > >
    > > > I have a few ideas.
    > > >
    > > > > I've sat on this report long enough.
    > > >
    > > > Thanks for the report.
    > > >
    > > > > I'm going to send a few different reports in separate mails, so I'll
    > > > > put my dmesg and .config up on a server:
    > > > >
    > > > > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jfannin3/dmesg.txt
    > > > > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jfannin3/config-2.6.25-mm1.txt
    > > > >
    > > > > [ 451.915553] sysfs: duplicate filename 'pcspkr' can not be created
    > > > > [ 451.915731] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    > > > > [ 451.915851] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:427 sysfs_add_one+0x85/0xe0()
    > > > > [ 451.915981] Modules linked in: snd_pcsp(+) ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi psmouse snd_rawmidi serio_raw snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq button i2c_viapro snd_timer snd_seq_device pcspkr i2c_core snd snd_page_alloc via686a shpchp pci_hotplug parport_pc parport via_agp agpgart soundcore evdev sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod 8139cp aic7xxx scsi_transport_spi scsi_mod 8139too mii uhci_hcd usbcore raid10 raid456 async_xor async_memcpy async_tx xor raid1 raid0 multipath linear md_mod thermal processor fan fuse ext4dev mbcache jbd2 crc16
    > > > > [ 451.918960] Pid: 2740, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 2.6.25-mm1 #7
    > > > > [ 451.929271] [<c0130fa9>] warn_on_slowpath+0x59/0x80
    > > > > [ 451.929500] [<c0132400>] ? vprintk+0x2f0/0x4a0
    > > > > [ 451.929723] [<c0356adc>] ? _spin_unlock+0x2c/0x50
    > > > > [ 451.929918] [<c01c6a7a>] ? ifind+0x4a/0xa0
    > > > > [ 451.930126] [<c0155216>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x150
    > > > > [ 451.930334] [<c015535b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
    > > > > [ 451.930534] [<c01325d0>] ? printk+0x20/0x30
    > > > > [ 451.930727] [<c01fcc45>] sysfs_add_one+0x85/0xe0
    > > > > [ 451.930900] [<c01fd89e>] create_dir+0x4e/0xb0
    > > > > [ 451.931064] [<c01fd930>] sysfs_create_dir+0x30/0x50
    > > > > [ 451.931291] [<c0356adc>] ? _spin_unlock+0x2c/0x50
    > > > > [ 451.931485] [<c023dac6>] kobject_add_internal+0xb6/0x190
    > > > > [ 451.931656] [<c023dc22>] ? kobject_set_name_vargs+0x32/0x40
    > > > > [ 451.931857] [<c023dc8a>] kobject_add_varg+0x5a/0x60
    > > > > [ 451.932022] [<c023e12f>] kobject_init_and_add+0x2f/0x40
    > > > > [ 451.932188] [<c02a3e44>] bus_add_driver+0x94/0x250
    > > > > [ 451.932364] [<c02a5062>] driver_register+0x42/0xf0
    > > > > [ 451.932533] [<c02a6c56>] platform_driver_register+0x66/0x70
    > > > > [ 451.932702] [<cc04b02a>] pcsp_init+0x2a/0x2c [snd_pcsp]
    > > > > [ 451.932877] [<c015e137>] sys_init_module+0x87/0x1a0
    > > > > [ 451.933043] [<c0155216>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x150
    > > > > [ 451.933246] [<c024314c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
    > > > > [ 451.933453] [<c0104077>] sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xc5
    > > >
    > > > Yes, there have been lots of these lately. I expect some of them _will_ go
    > > > into mainline and they'll then slowly get weeded out.
    > > >
    > >
    > > It looks like it is coming from snd_pcsp module from alsa tree.
    >
    > Ah, OK. More cc's.
    >
    > >
    > > Cool things there:
    > >
    > > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
    > > + /* Well, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC makes the sound horrible. Lets
    > > alert */
    > > + printk(KERN_WARNING
    > > + "PCSP: Warning, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled!\n"
    > > + "You have to disable it if you want to use the PC-Speaker
    > > "
    > > + "driver.\n"
    > > + "Unless it is disabled, enjoy the horrible, distorted "
    > > + "and crackling noise.\n");
    > > +#endif
    >
    > heh.
    >
    > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is a very heavy consumer of CPU cycles. I'm not
    > surprised that it would whack what I presume to be a very latency-sensitive
    > driver.

    Um...

    [jhf@Susa ~]$ uname -a
    Linux Susa 2.6.25-mm1 #7 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 18 17:05:14 EDT 2008 i686
    GNU/Linux
    [jhf@Susa ~]$ zgrep PAGEALLOC /proc/config.gz
    # CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not set
    [jhf@Susa ~]$

    I thought that might have snuck in as =y, but it didn't.

    --
    Joseph Fannin
    jfannin@gmail.com



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