On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > your patch didn't seem to print anything additional the first time throug.
> > > 
> > > I then tried the trace command you suggested, but I'm getting an empty
> > > ftrace buffer which possibly means I don't have enough ftrace kernel 
> > > options enabled.
> > > 
> > > Here's the most recent boot crash.
> > > 
> > > [    5.367069] ODEBUG: Info active (active state 0) object type: 
> > > timer_list hint:           (null)
> > 
> > Stupid me. We get the hint from the wreckaged object ....
> > 
> > A hopefully better approach is the delta patch below.
> 
> with that applied on top:
> 
> [    5.342681] Invalid timer base: tmr ffff880117740150 tmr->base           
> (null) base ffff880118618000
> [    5.352786] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    5.357911] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 0 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 
> debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
> [    5.367023] ODEBUG: Info active (active state 0) object type: timer_list 
> hint:           (null) delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20

Good, we have at least a point where we can gather useful
information. The timer belongs to a delayed work. The work itself is
tracked via debug objects as well. So we can get that as well. Delta
patch below.

Thanks,

        tglx
------

Index: linux-2.6/lib/debugobjects.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ linux-2.6/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/hash.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #define ODEBUG_HASH_BITS       14
 #define ODEBUG_HASH_SIZE       (1 << ODEBUG_HASH_BITS)
@@ -400,6 +401,20 @@ void debug_object_info(void *addr, struc
                debug_print_object(obj, "Info");
 
        raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
+
+       addr = container_of(addr, struct delayed_work, timer);
+
+       db = get_bucket((unsigned long) addr);
+
+       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
+
+       obj = lookup_object(addr, db);
+       if (!obj)
+               pr_err("Object unknown %p\n", addr);
+       else
+               debug_print_object(obj, "Info");
+
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -452,6 +467,7 @@ int debug_object_activate(void *addr, st
                }
                if (!obj->hint)
                        obj->hint = descr->debug_hint ? descr->debug_hint(addr) 
: NULL;
+
                raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
                return ret;
        }




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