From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422653AbXDCS5v (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:57:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422651AbXDCS5v (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:57:51 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:65318 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422654AbXDCS5u (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:57:50 -0400 Subject: real time hang w/ latency tracing From: Daniel Walker To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:57:05 -0700 Message-Id: <1175626625.10738.21.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With 2.6.21-rc5-rt8 / i386 . If I disable wakeup timing , and enable interrupt off timing with latency tracing I can cause, BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: IRQ-16/0x00000000/909 caller is rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x94/0x190 [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x3a/0x60 [] show_trace+0x2d/0x30 [] dump_stack+0x27/0x30 [] schedule+0x12b/0x130 [] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x94/0x190 [] rt_spin_lock+0x25/0x30 [] serial8250_console_write+0x16f/0x190 [] __call_console_drivers+0x7a/0xa0 [] _call_console_drivers+0x57/0xa0 [] release_console_sem+0xdd/0x1e0 [] vprintk+0x226/0x3b0 [] printk+0x20/0x30 [] print_traces+0x49/0x100 [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x52/0x60 [] show_trace+0x2d/0x30 [] dump_stack+0x27/0x30 [] check_critical_timing+0x2b1/0x380 [] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa6/0xc0 [] restore_nocheck+0x12/0x15 ======================= I do this by running, echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/preempt_thresh which clearly causes loads of output .. Then while the output is screaming along I hold down the left arrow key and eventually the message above starts to appear often .. Then the system hangs. Also I'm using an NFS root which might help to bring out the error .. Daniel