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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-13 20:21:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-14 23:30:19 +0100 |
| commit | e8bff74afbdb4ad72bf6135c84289c47cf557892 (patch) | |
| tree | 46b560c1f055a1fe7dbb9ad6b42b19f521e1ec27 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | e760e716d47b48caf98da348368fd41b4a9b9e7e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e8bff74afbdb4ad72bf6135c84289c47cf557892.tar.gz lwn-e8bff74afbdb4ad72bf6135c84289c47cf557892.zip | |
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 <ak@suse.de>
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 <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 717aa0e3be2d..55b97ef6de11 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) { |