From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753430Ab0CDC6u (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:58:50 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com ([209.85.221.172]:64982 "EHLO mail-qy0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753188Ab0CDC6p convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:58:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PIB+nriiJ6ZqXxQAEBKuhrNeuZiquv4gqFlh/NzQ5fieI/iVuSs5YRw5mdjpRsm8Ir kopn6ZD8jjS5OwfcVY5QMZummXIrqOGqX6zJy+/GShgEjjUfs46gG0Y4LzlQcTq90fMo Du6YPqMu4zh7/+Ng5TpZ4NzvX8NhzSnwSU26o= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1267621558.10871.29.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> References: <2375c9f91003022204p5bdab1fdj3b3500998575fc28@mail.gmail.com> <1267621558.10871.29.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:58:44 +0800 Message-ID: <2375c9f91003031858g87fa483t297417f4d6af063b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.33: ftrace triggers soft lockup From: =?UTF-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: LKML , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 14:04 +0800, Américo Wang wrote: >> Hi, Steven, Frederic, Ingo, >> >> I am not sure if this is ftrace's fault, but it is ftrace who triggers >> the soft lockup. On my machine, it is pretty easy, just run: >> >> echo function_graph > current_tracer >> >> I found this when 2.6.33-rc7, but forgot to report here. I just tried today's >> Linus tree, it still has this problem. >> >> Attached are the full soft lockup warnings. >> >> Below is my related configs: > > Actually this is not enough for me. Could you send me the full config, > as well as the full dmesg, not just the dump. > Full dmesg: http://pastebin.ca/1822197 Full config: http://pastebin.ca/1822201 Note, I changed some tracing unrelated config after getting that soft lockup, so it would not matter.