Hi,
I'm using the old-fashioned 'dump' backup tool, and I noticed that it spews the
below warning as of 3.5-rc1 and later (3.4 is fine):
[ 10.886893] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 10.886904] WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_process+0x1488/0x1560()
[ 10.886905] Hardware name: Bochs
[ 10.886906] Modules linked in:
[ 10.886908] Pid: 2430, comm: dump Not tainted 3.5.0-rc7+ #27
[ 10.886908] Call Trace:
[ 10.886911] [<ffffffff8107ce8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[ 10.886912] [<ffffffff8107ced5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 10.886913] [<ffffffff8107c088>] copy_process+0x1488/0x1560
[ 10.886914] [<ffffffff8107c244>] do_fork+0xb4/0x340
[ 10.886918] [<ffffffff8108effa>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1a/0x50
[ 10.886919] [<ffffffff8108f6b2>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x32/0x80
[ 10.886920] [<ffffffff81091afa>] ? __set_current_blocked+0x3a/0x60
[ 10.886923] [<ffffffff81051db3>] sys_clone+0x23/0x30
[ 10.886925] [<ffffffff8179bd73>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[ 10.886927] [<ffffffff8179baa2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 10.886928] ---[ end trace 32a14af7ee6a590b ]---
Reproducing is easy, I can hit it on a KVM system with a very basic
config (x86_64 make defconfig + enable the drivers needed). To hit it,
just install dump (on debian/ubuntu, not sure what the package might be
called on Fedora), and:
dump -o -f /tmp/foo /
You'll see the warning in dmesg once it forks off the I/O process and
starts dumping filesystem contents.
I bisected it down to the following commit:
commit f6e8d01bee
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon Mar 5 13:15:26 2012 -0800
block: add io_context->active_ref
Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc
is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks. This
patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired
and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively.
This will be used to associate bio's with a given task. This patch
doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
It seems like the init of ioc->nr_tasks was removed in that patch,
so it starts out at 0 instead of 1.
Tejun, is the right thing here to add back the init, or should something else
be done?
The below patch removes the warning, but I haven't done any more extensive
testing on it.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
4638a83e86