On 2015-02-16 19:52, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-02-16 18:52, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2015-02-16 18:48, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>> On 02/16/2015 06:35 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> The following changes since commit 
>>>> 00d8a6f2e95453f61ae97b6587dba03bc91c7e1a:
>>>>
>>>>   arm/ipipe: Resolve trival merge conflicts (2015-01-14 17:00:22 +0100)
>>>>
>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>
>>>>   git://git.xenomai.org/ipipe-jki 
>>>>
>>>> for you to fetch changes up to f982e48ce99e1bc9e71eac21830adac2db265c98:
>>>>
>>>>   x86/ipipe: Restore invocation of ipipe_unlock_irq from 
>>>> startup_ioapic_irq (2015-02-16 18:22:21 +0100)
>>>>
>>>> All patches apply to 3.16 as well but weren't tested there yet. Still
>>>> analyzing strange
>>>>
>>>> traps: (systemd)[1420] trap invalid opcode ip:7f4d138f612b sp:7fff4fd8f568 
>>>> error:0 in libpthread-2.19.so[7f4d138e5000+18000]
>>>>
>>>> on the target under 3.14...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Register trashing on the fast call path (system_call_after_gs) maybe.
>>> Forcing CONFIG_IPIPE_LEGACY there might help ruling this out.
>>
>> That's without any Xenomai configured. But I will check.
> 
> This is where it traps in libpthread:
> 
>    1112b:       c7 f8 00 00 00 00       xbeginq 11131 
> <__lll_lock_elision+0x51>
> 
> For some reason, glibc starts to believe it could use RTM on that
> machine - although this is clearly not available (Haswell i7, thus a
> buggy CPU). Need to understand which feature check goes wrong, and why
> only on I-pipe enabled kernels.
> 
> The good news is that I still have a similar and unresolved report from
> early customer tests. That could solve their issues as well (they
> caused massive domain migrations).

Wait - we were already one step further: a potential trigger for this
behaviour is a nullified pthread mutex. The decision to take the TSX
path is based on field in that struct, and 0 means transactional. Guess
I need a better reproduction case than some systemd service.

Jan

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