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* Re: 2.4.3-pre6: agpart.o causes arch/i386/mm/ioremap.c hang
@ 2001-03-23  9:52 Adam J. Richter
  2001-03-23 12:44 ` [patch] " Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Adam J. Richter @ 2001-03-23  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I wrote:

>	Under linux-2.4.3-pre6 compiled for SMP, loading agpgart.o
>hangs the system in remap_area_pages (arch/i386/mm/ioremap.c) at
>the call to spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock), which is not in 2.4.2.
[...]
>	agp_backend_initialize
>	agp_generic_create_gatt_table
>	io_remap_nocache
>	__ioremap
>	remap_area_pages
[...]


>	I'm rebuilding the kernel now with a modified spin_lock()
>routine that should tell me who acquired the lock previously [...]

	 In case anyone is interested, the conflicting lock of
init_mm.page_table_lock was acquired in line 1318 of mm/memory.c,
in pte_alloc.

	One way that this might be happening is that it looks like
no page_table_lock is every acquired by vmalloc, which results in
the following call graph:

	vmalloc
	__vmalloc
	vmalloc_area_pages
	alloc_area_pmd
	pte_alloc ...which assumes (here incorrectly) that
		mm->page_table_lock is held, and sometimes releases
		and reacquires mm->page_table_lock.

	I will attempt to analyze this further tomorrow if nobody
beats me to it.

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