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Commit: e8bff74afbdb4ad72bf6135c84289c47cf557892
Parent: e760e716d47b48caf98da348368fd41b4a9b9e7e
Author: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 13 20:21:06 2008 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Thu Feb 14 23:30:19 2008 +0100
x86: fix "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" in
print_vma_addr()
Jiri Kosina reported the following deadlock scenario with
show_unhandled_signals enabled:
[ 68.379022] gnome-settings-[2941] trap int3 ip:3d2c840f34
sp:7fff36f5d100 error:0<3>BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at kernel/rwsem.c:21
[ 68.379039] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
[ 68.379044] no locks held by gnome-settings-/2941.
[ 68.379050] Pid: 2941, comm: gnome-settings- Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1 #30
[ 68.379054]
[ 68.379056] Call Trace:
[ 68.379061] <#DB> [<ffffffff81064883>] ?
__debug_show_held_locks+0x13/0x30
[ 68.379109] [<ffffffff81036765>] __might_sleep+0xe5/0x110
[ 68.379123] [<ffffffff812f2240>] down_read+0x20/0x70
[ 68.379137] [<ffffffff8109cdca>] print_vma_addr+0x3a/0x110
[ 68.379152] [<ffffffff8100f435>] do_trap+0xf5/0x170
[ 68.379168] [<ffffffff8100f52b>] do_int3+0x7b/0xe0
[ 68.379180] [<ffffffff812f4a6f>] int3+0x9f/0xd0
[ 68.379203] <<EOE>>
[ 68.379229] in libglib-2.0.so.0.1505.0[3d2c800000+dc000]
and tracked it down to:
commit 03252919b79891063cf99145612360efbdf9500b
Author: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:18 2008 +0100
x86: print which shared library/executable faulted in segfault etc.
messages
the problem is that we call down_read() from an atomic context.
Solve this by returning from print_vma_addr() if the preempt count is
elevated. Update preempt_conditional_sti / preempt_conditional_cli to
unconditionally lift the preempt count even on !CONFIG_PREEMPT.
Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c | 4 ++--
mm/memory.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
index efc66df..0454666 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline void conditional_sti(struct pt_regs *regs)
static inline void preempt_conditional_sti(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- preempt_disable();
+ inc_preempt_count();
if (regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF)
local_irq_enable();
}
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static inline void preempt_conditional_cli(struct pt_regs
*regs)
local_irq_disable();
/* Make sure to not schedule here because we could be running
on an exception stack. */
- preempt_enable_no_resched();
+ dec_preempt_count();
}
int kstack_depth_to_print = 12;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 717aa0e..55b97ef 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2711,6 +2711,13 @@ void print_vma_addr(char *prefix, unsigned long ip)
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ /*
+ * Do not print if we are in atomic
+ * contexts (in exception stacks, etc.):
+ */
+ if (preempt_count())
+ return;
+
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
vma = find_vma(mm, ip);
if (vma && vma->vm_file) {
-
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