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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list [email protected] http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
