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Re: nightly testing 20060601


Stone, Joshua I wrote:
On Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:30 AM, William Cohen wrote:

On RHEL4 i686 UP kernel the testsuite "scheduler_tick" test dies due
to a spinlock already be grabbed.


I assume this is systemtap.base/probefunc.exp?  Do you have any details
on the spinlock contention?

Josh

Yes, systemtap.base/probefunc.exp definitely causes the crash when trying to probe kernel.function("scheduler_tick"). I don't have a great deal of details about the failure on the RHEL4 UP kernel. There wasn't a traceback or oops on the screen. The console had the following error messages:


Linux slingshot.devel.redhat.com 2.6.9-37.EL #1 Fri May 19 17:55:44 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Kernel panic - not sync: kernel/module.c:2114: spin_lock(kernel/module.c:c036b280) already locked by kernel/module.c/2114

Badness in panic at kernel/panic.c:118


Looking at linux/kernel/module.c:2114, it is a spin_lock_irqsave() in search_module_extables(). Not sure why it is getting stuck there.


-Will


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