Re: Kernel Linux 2.6.23.16 hangs when run updatedb

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> > > How can I fix this? Is safe run reiserfsck?
> > 
> > 
> > I think he's wrong.
> > 
> > Looking at the call trace, the BUG happens during an interrupt.  It
> > could be a coincidence that the interrupt happened during this
> > particular system call.
> > 
> > It looks like a timer callback has been corrupted / set to an invalid
> > value.  The BUG is due to accessing the invalid address 61060fe0
> > within enqueue_hrtimer, and the EIP (instruction pointer) is also
> > equal to 61060fe0.  This would be consistent with the source code of
> > enqueue_hrtimer.  It's not an obvious reiserfs issue.

It's pretty inconsistent with the source code of enqueue_hrtimer().

The only possibility to have a callback from enqueue_hrtimer() is in
hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram() in the HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_RESTART
case. Such timers can not be requeued in interrupt context, hence the
name HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_RESTART :)

Also in hrtimer_interrupt context, hrtimer_enqueue() is called with
reprogram = 0, which ensures that we do not call
hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram().

> > I don't know how to find out where this corruption is happening, but
> > it's worth asking the hrtimers people.
 
Let's gather some more information. 

Renato, some questions:

1) is this fully reproducible with updatedb ?

2) are you sure that this is the first stacktrace you captured, there
might be some BUG before that which scrolled out of sight. Any chance
to use a serial console ?

3) Can you please recompile the kernel with CONFIF_DEBUG_INFO set
and then run the following addresses from the backtrace through
addr2line with the new vmlinux:

# addr2line -e vmlinux 0xc013dad9 0xc0107c3b

Please provide the output.

4) Looking at your .config it seems you have some more patches applied
aside of the .16 stable. Can you please upload a full patch queue
somewhere ?

Thanks,

	tglx