Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:06:41 -0500 From: Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> Cc: alc@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: Lock vm object not exclusively locked @ /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c:2637 Message-ID: <5521EA31.3000007@rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A9C264F-3DAD-473B-A030-3FD026C2E8E3@me.com> References: <20150405133758.GA40261@albert.catwhisker.org> <20150405154721.GO64665@FreeBSD.org> <5521749C.4020408@rice.edu> <20150405193425.GR64665@glebius.int.ru> <5521961C.8010808@rice.edu> <3A9C264F-3DAD-473B-A030-3FD026C2E8E3@me.com>
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On 04/05/2015 19:49, Rui Paulo wrote: > On Apr 5, 2015, at 13:07, Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu> wrote: >> On 04/05/2015 14:34, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 12:45:00PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: >>> A> On 04/05/2015 10:47, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >>> A> > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 06:37:58AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >>> A> > D> It ocurred rather late in the transition to multi-user mode, but >>> A> > D> prior to starting xdm (on my laptop). >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> Previous (working) head/i386 for this machine was r281074. >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> Here's the first bit of the crashinfo (yes, I have a crash dump): >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> g1-254.catwhisker.org dumped core - see /var/crash/vmcore.3 >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> Sun Apr 5 06:18:44 PDT 2015 >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> FreeBSD g1-254.catwhisker.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1561 r281106M/281106:1100067: Sun Apr 5 06:01:06 PDT 2015 root@g1-254.catwhisker.org:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 >>> A> > D> >>> A> > D> panic: Lock vm object not exclusively locked @ /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_page.c:2637 >>> A> > >>> A> > This is r281079. >>> A> > >>> A> > Since vm_page_advise() may call vm_page_dirty() in the MADV_DONTNEED case, >>> A> > the assertion is valid. So, looks like vm_fault_dontneed() needs W-lock on >>> A> > the first_object. >>> A> > >>> A> >>> A> Actually, what I forgot was that vm_page_advise(MADV_FREE) clears the >>> A> page's dirty field, and that is why an exclusive lock is asserted. As >>> A> explained in vm_page.h, the pmap is allowed to set the dirty field to >>> A> all ones without any locking. Moreover, the new "fast" path in >>> A> vm_fault() sets the dirty field with only a read lock held. >>> A> vm_page_advise(MADV_DONTNEED) isn't really any different from the fast path. >>> A> >>> A> Need to think a bit ... >>> >>> Can you please plug the panic somehow interim? For me the assert fires 100% >>> reliably on any build attempt. Right now I changed vm_fault_dontneed() to >>> take W-lock, so that I can continue running head. Not sure this is correct >>> measure. >>> >> Just curious, amd64 or i386? > Alan, this is caused by your r281079. Are you working on it? If you don't have a resolution soon, I think we should revert it ASAP as it's extremely easy to panic the system. It was fixed about six hours ago: r281118.
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