From: William Chow <lilbilchow@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: smp_call_function/flush_tlb_all hang on large memory system
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:21:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320202115.86154.qmail@web13807.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
On my 2.4.18 system, I am seeing a hang in
smp_call_function() when my machine is configured with
>2GB of RAM. Examining the call_data, it appears that
only 2 out of the other 3 cpus have responded to the
IPI (started == finished == 2). Examining eflags on
each of the cpus, shows that one of the cpus has
interrupts disabled (bit 9 was clear). However, that
cpu's stack does not show anything that would have
disabled interrupts, i.e. appears as if somebody
forgot to sti. Interestingly, manually setting that
bit (from kdb) will actually unwedge the system.
I always see smp_call_function() called from
flush_tbl_all(), which is usually called from
kmap_high; there has been one occassion when it was
called from vmfree_area_pages.
3]kdb> bt
EBP EIP Function (args)
4d4afec4 40111398 smp_call_function+0x88 (40111180 0 1
1 755)
4d4afee0 401111dc flush_tlb_all+0x14 (0 4d4ac000
433ca6b0)
4d4afef4 40138779 flush_all_zero_pkmaps+0x89 (433ca6b0
4d4aff6c 403 40129fd0 433ca6b0)
4d4aff28 4013888a kmap_high+0x106 (4d112474 2000
499392e4 4d1124dc 0)
4d4aff74 4012c997 generic_file_write+0x40b (499392c4
3fffd4a4 1000 499392e4 0)
4d4aff98 40178df5 nfs_file_write+0xa9 (499392c4
3fffc4a4 2000 499392e4 4d4ac000)
4d4affbc 4013ad18 sys_write+0x98 (4 3fffc4a4 2000 2000
3fffc4a4)
401071ab system_call+0x33
This hang is fairly reproducible when exercising NFS
(as shown above), e.g. repeatedly copying a large
file.
Browsing the web, I found a similar occurrence, but
didn't find a reply to the post:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/200010/msg00122.html
Has anyone ever seen this or possibly have any ideas?
Please CC me directly on the response. Thanks in
advance.
- William Chow
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next reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 20:21 William Chow [this message]
2004-11-22 9:45 Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida
2004-11-22 12:14 ` Robin Holt
2004-11-23 2:11 Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida
2004-11-23 2:26 ` Jack Steiner
2004-11-23 2:36 ` Keith Owens
2004-11-23 18:53 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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