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SubjectRe: linux-next: boot failures with next-20120411
On 04/13/2012 04:30 AM, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some (not all) of my PowerPC boot tests have failed like this after
>> getting into user mode (this one was just after udev started, but others
>> are after other processes getting going):
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc0000003f9d550
>> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001b7f40
>> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>> SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA pSeries
>> Modules linked in: ehea
>> NIP: c0000000001b7f40 LR: c0000000001b7f14 CTR: c0000000000e04f0
>> REGS: c0000003f68bf6b0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (3.4.0-rc2-autokern1)
>> MSR: 800000000280b032 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 24422424 XER: 20000001
>> SOFTE: 1
>> CFAR: 000000000000562c
>> DAR: 00c0000003f9d550, DSISR: 40000000
>> TASK = c0000003f8818000[3192] 'kdump' THREAD: c0000003f68bc000 CPU: 5
>> GPR00: 0000000000000000 c0000003f68bf930 c000000000ce1d40 c0000003fe00ec00
>> GPR04: 00000000000002d0 0000000000000038 c0000003f8f935e8 c000000000e55280
>> GPR08: 0000000000000011 c000000000bcb280 c000000000bcb1e8 000000000028a000
>> GPR12: 0000000024422424 c00000000f33bc80 00000fffdd90a770 0000000000081000
>> GPR16: c0000003f846c000 000000000de4f7a0 f00000000de4f7a0 0000000000000000
>> GPR20: c0000003f8365408 c0000003f8365480 c0000003f8e5d110 0000000000000000
>> GPR24: 0000000000000100 c0000003f8365400 c0000000001e5424 00000000000002d0
>> GPR28: 0000000000000800 00c0000003f9d550 c000000000c5b718 c0000003fe00ec00
>> NIP [c0000000001b7f40] .__kmalloc+0x70/0x230
>> LR [c0000000001b7f14] .__kmalloc+0x44/0x230
>> Call Trace:
>> [c0000003f68bf930] [c0000003f68bf9b0] 0xc0000003f68bf9b0 (unreliable)
>> [c0000003f68bf9e0] [c0000000001e5424] .alloc_fdmem+0x24/0x70
>> [c0000003f68bfa60] [c0000000001e54f8] .alloc_fdtable+0x88/0x130
>> [c0000003f68bfaf0] [c0000000001e5924] .dup_fd+0x384/0x450
>> [c0000003f68bfbd0] [c00000000009a310] .copy_process+0x880/0x11d0
>> [c0000003f68bfcd0] [c00000000009aee0] .do_fork+0x70/0x400
>> [c0000003f68bfdc0] [c0000000000141c4] .sys_clone+0x54/0x70
>> [c0000003f68bfe30] [c000000000009aa0] .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
>> Instruction dump:
>> 4bff9281 2ba30010 7c7f1b78 40dd00f4 e96d0040 e93f0000 7ce95a14 e9070008
>> 7fa9582a 2fbd0000 41de0054 e81f0022 <7f3d002a> 38000000 886d01f2 980d01f2
>> ---[ end trace 366fe6c7ced3bfb0 ]---
>>
>> This did not happen yesterday. Just wondering if anyone can think of
>> anything obvious. Full console log at
>> http://ozlabs.org/~sfr/next-20120411.log.bz2
>
> I managed to bisect this down using pseries_defconfig with next-20120412
> to this patch:
>
> commit 85bbc003b24335e253a392f6a9874103b77abb36
> Author: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Date: Mon Apr 2 13:54:22 2012 +0200
>
> TTY: HVC, use tty from tty_port
>
> The driver already used refcounting. So we just switch it to tty_port
> helpers. And switch to tty_port->lock for tty.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Reverting this commit (and 0146b6939074ebe14ece3604fd00e7be128a3812
> otherwise git barfs) fixes the problem on next-20120412.
>
> I'm assuming we got the ref count changes wrong somewhere in the patch
> but the tty code is beyond me. Jiri, can you take a look?

Yeah, I see. I forgot to remove a couple of tty reference drops. The
reference is dropped by tty_port_tty_set in open/close/hangup now. Does
the attached patch help?

thanks,
--
js
suse labs


From cc51efe721f5aa184e119c52c661a1faf865e492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:00:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] HVC: fix refcounting

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
index 6c45cbf..260d4f2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
@@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ static int hvc_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
*/
if (rc) {
tty_port_tty_set(&hp->port, NULL);
- tty_kref_put(tty);
tty->driver_data = NULL;
tty_port_put(&hp->port);
printk(KERN_ERR "hvc_open: request_irq failed with rc %d.\n", rc);
@@ -393,7 +392,6 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->port.lock, flags);
}

- tty_kref_put(tty);
tty_port_put(&hp->port);
}

@@ -433,7 +431,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)

while(temp_open_count) {
--temp_open_count;
- tty_kref_put(tty);
tty_port_put(&hp->port);
}
}
--
1.7.9.2
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