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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] 3.7-rc3+git hard lockup on CPU after inserting/removing USB stick
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Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> CC´d bad patch author Chuansheng as well as Ingo and Thomas as the
> issue seems to be thread irqs related.
>
> Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:01:38PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I had this with something in between 3.7-rc3 und 3.7-rc4 after
> > > > inserting and removing an USB stick. This example is with a
> > > > kernel + f2fs patches v3, but I had this with 3.7-rc3 as well.
> > >
> > > Ok, so it's not a new thing introduced in 3.7-rc4 (which is good,
> > > as there wasn't any USB patches added between -rc3 and -rc4.)
> > >
> > > Does it also happen on -rc2? Anything older? Can you run 'git
> > > bisect' to try to track it down?
> >
> > It appears to be worse with 3.7-rc1. The machine basically locked up
> > a few moments after inserting the stick.
> >
> > First time I was on some tty and I saw lots of backtraces flowing by
> > the process of which the BTRFS on /, which resides on an unrelated
> > internal Intel SSD 320, was switched to read only. There have been
> > pauses between backtraces. Second I was in KDE session which
> > basically locked up soon as well. No mouse pointer movements where
> > possible, no switching to tty1.
> >
> > I only have the last part of the backtrace of the first occurence as
> > photo.
> >
> > Nothing was saved on SSD.
> >
> > I do not want to go an earlier 3.7 version than rc1 on this
> > production machine.
>
> I bisected this after having made a backup:

[… bisect log and some explainations …]

> The first bad commit is:
>
> commit 73d4066055e0e2830533041f4b91df8e6e5976ff
> Author: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> Date: Tue Sep 11 16:00:30 2012 +0800
>
> USB/host: Cleanup unneccessary irq disable code
>
> Because the IRQF_DISABLED as the flag is now a NOOP and has been
> deprecated and in hardirq context the interrupt is disabled.
>
> so in usb/host code:
> Removing the usage of flag IRQF_DISABLED;
> Removing the calling local_irq save/restore actions in irq
> handler usb_hcd_irq();
>
> Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
>
> But:
>
> This ony happens with threadirqs option!

Just another note:

irq/16-ehci_hcd was taking >99% CPU. It had PR -51 in top and I think this
was the task that made the CPU core stuck.

I have a short dmesg piece from the bad commit kernel. Attached.

Thanks,
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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