Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a race

From	Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a race
Date	2016-01-04 17:30 +0100
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Peter Zijlstra wrote on Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:59:15PM +0100:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:43:26PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > [add cc's]
> > 
> > Hi scheduler people:
> > 
> > This is relatively easy for me to reproduce.  Any hints for debugging
> > it?  Could we really have a bug in which processes that are
> > schedulable as a result of mutex unlock aren't always reliably
> > scheduled?
> 
> I would expect that to cause wide-spread fail, then again, virt is known
> to tickle timing issues that are improbable on actual hardware so
> anything is possible.
>
> Does it reproduce with DEBUG_MUTEXES set? (I'm not seeing a .config
> here).

The config has CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y

It got attached a while ago, reposting it here.

> If its really easy you could start by tracing events/sched/sched_switch
> events/sched/sched_wakeup, those would be the actual scheduling events.

I'm sure I've missed something in /Documentation but I'm not aware how
to trace these? (I'm happy to save Andy some precious time as I've got a
reproducer all set up now)

> Without DEBUG_MUTEXES there's the MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER code that could
> still confuse things, but that's mutex internal and not scheduler
> related.
> 
> If it ends up being the SPIN_ON_OWNER bits we'll have to cook up some
> extra debug patches.

-- 
Dominique

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Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a  race Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-04 17:00 +0100
  Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a  race Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr> - 2016-01-04 17:30 +0100
    Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a race Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-01-04 20:10 +0100
      Re: [V9fs-developer] Hang triggered by udev coldplug, looks like a  race Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-04 20:30 +0100

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