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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta•de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail•com>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:59:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724175951.GC6019@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231415511.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:28:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > It'd be nice to get a clean trace.  Are you able to obtain the full
> > trace with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y?
> 
> If you are talking about
> 
> 	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dsc03659.jpg
> 
> then I think that _is_ a full trace. It's certainly not very messy, and it 
> seems accurate. It's just that inlining makes it much harder to see the 
> call-graphs, but that's what inlining does..
> 
> For example, missing from the call graph is
> 
> 	get_page_from_freelist ->
> 	  buffered_rmqueue ->		[ missing - inlined ]
> 	    prep_new_page ->		[ missing - inlined ]
> 	      prep_zero_page ->		[ missing - inlined ]
> 		clear_highpage ->	[ missing - inlined ]
> 		  kmap_atomic ->	[ missing - tailcall ]
> 		    kmap_atomic_prot
> 
> but I'm pretty sure the call trace is good (and I'm also pretty sure gcc 
> is overly aggressive at inlining, and that it causes us pain for 
> debugging, but whatever)
>...

For prep_zero_page() and clear_highpage() we can't blame gcc since we 
force gcc to always inline them.

buffered_rmqueue() and prep_new_page() are static functions with only 
one caller each, and for the normal non-debug case it's a really nice 
optimization to have them inlined automatically. But it might make sense 
to add -fno-inline-functions-called-once to the CFLAGS depending on some 
debug option?

> 			Linus

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707221351030.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <20070723183839.GA5874@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
     [not found]   ` <20070723190152.GA5755@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
2007-07-23 20:24     ` 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot() Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 20:40       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:01         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 21:11           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 21:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 21:37               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-24 17:59               ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-07-24 18:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 18:28                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 19:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 19:40                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-24 19:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26 18:07                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-26 18:19                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 20:27                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-24 19:45                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26  6:09                   ` commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-23 22:04             ` 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot() Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-23 22:27               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24  5:20                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-24  8:17                 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-24  8:22                   ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-24  8:34                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 14:00                       ` Dan Williams
2007-07-24 13:55                     ` Dan Williams
2007-07-24 10:01       ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-24 10:37         ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-24 16:28         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 18:25           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 20:05             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-25  5:09             ` Mike Galbraith

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