Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:38:00 +0900 | From | Michel Dänzer <> | Subject | Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc |
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On 23.07.2014 23:24, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:11:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:45:46AM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote: >>>> Doesn't the picture showing the captured panic reveal more information. >>>> Haven't seen it myself, I just saw Peter's reply to your email >>> >>> Its a general protection fault from somewhere in load_balance(), I send >>> you the picture. >>> >>> It would help to get addr2line of the RIP I suppose. >>> >>> Michel provided a config, so lemme go try and build that, maybe my gcc >>> will generate similar code to his and the function offset is enough >>> clue. >> >> So the code section says the faulting instruction is: >> >> f3 a5 >> >> followed by: >> >> 48 89 c7 85 50 ff ff >> >> or so. >> >> My compiled code is 'different', the function is shorter, but there's a >> f3 a5 somewhere not too far short of +d7 at +a8. I have (objdump -SD): >> >> 35a8: f3 a5 rep movsl %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi) >> >> for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_cpus(group), env->cpus) { >> unsigned long capacity, capacity_factor, wl; >> enum fbq_type rt; >> >> rq = cpu_rq(i); >> 35aa: 48 c7 c1 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rcx >> >> And that's the only part that could possibly match. >> >> That looks like the start of find_busiest_queue(). I'm not entirely sure >> what the rep movsl is operating on, lemme try and figure that out. > > Ah, this appears to be load_balance()'s: > > cpumask_copy(cpus, cpu_active_mask);
Right, according to addr2line it's the memcpy in bitmap_copy().
> Which totally doesn't make sense, both src and dst are static storage. > Dst is the most interesting since its per-cpu storage, but still. > > No way either of those should generate a #GP. Puzzled.
Could it be the memcpy length being off or something like that?
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