[REGRESSION] 3.13-rc2: locks up hard on trying to transfer a file to mmc based internal SD card slot [FOUND]

Tue Dec 31 05:42:48 PST 2013

Am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2013, 13:52:05 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2013, 13:41:22 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > Am Samstag, 30. November 2013, 14:53:51 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > > Just added linux-mmc. And I might git-bisect that at some time, but I do
> > > not intend to do it during my precious weekend. The chances of me
> > > bisecting it increase with workable suggestions on how to cut down the
> > > amount of iterations needed and avoid testing highly experimental
> > > between
> > > 3.12 and 3.13-rc1 kernels on a production laptop. I may be willing to
> > > test a patch or two. As I see there seem to have been quite some changes
> > > in MMC subsystem.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Just does that on a ThinkPad T520 with:
> > > 
> > > merkaba:~> lspci -nn | grep MMC
> > > 0d:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd PCIe SDXC/MMC Host
> > > Controller [1180:e823] (rev 08)
> > > 
> > > Mouse pointer freezes, no Ctrl-Alt-F1.
> > 
> > It just does that with
> > 
> > Linux version 3.13.0-rc6-tp520 (martin at merkaba) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian
> > 4.8.2-10) ) #41 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 30 13:39:07 CET 2013
> > 
> > as well.
> 
> I missed some important data. Kernel runs with threadirqs:
> 
> merkaba:~> cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.12.6-tp520
> root=UUID=2f5c334d-249b-4c89-95cc-18572f750bd7 ro rootflags=subvol=root
> resume=/dev/mapper/merkaba-swap threadirqs i915_enable_rc6=7
> 
> Oh, and I see i915_enable_rc6=7. This always worked flawlessly. But maybe
> this changed? Cause according to powertop the GPU never entered deeper
> sleep states anyway. Maybe this now works (and thus may hang)?
> 
> These are values on 3.12.6:
>                     |             GPU     |
>                     | 
>                     | Powered On 96,3%    |
>                     | RC6         3,7%    |
>                     | RC6p        0,0%    |
>                     | RC6pp       0,0%    |
> 
> I also attach kernel configs of non working 3.13-rc6 and working 3.12.6
> kernels.
> 
> Its a ThinkPad T520 with Sandybridge:
> 
> merkaba:~> lspci -nn | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
> Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
> 
> Debian kernel packages available. But well… optimized for ThinkPad T520, may
> not run nicely otherwere.
> 
> 
> Please give suggestions on what to try next. Whats comes to mind is tryining
> without rc6_enable option and then without threadirq option.
> 
> Any other idea?

So there we go:

1) Without kernel options (except resume option) copying works in desktop.

2) But then otherwise as I expected: With just "threadirqs" kernel option it 
hangs. I would have suspected the "i915_enable_rc6" option instead.

3) But only when triggering copy via KDE desktop dolphin´s file manager. I 
tried copying on tty1 again and no hang there. Also again I/O seemed to go on 
after mouse pointer freeze (without Ctrl-Alt-F1) working. kwin ran in 
compositing mode.

4) With just "i915_enable_rc6=7" it works. But since according to powertop 
that option doesn´t give me the benefit of doing into deeper GPU sleep states 
anyway, I removed that one now as well.

So my laptop is on 3.13-rc6 now without any special options and I learned 
again:

Never try to tune the kernel :)

And if still tuning it: First remove any kernel option when facing any issue. 
Sorry for the noise that not adhering to this has caused.

This is second time that threadirqs option caused problems here. Thus CCing 
rt-users mailing list as well.

If wished I compile this all into a bugzilla.kernel.org bug report in a 
concise format as well. But thats for another day :)

Have a good shift into new year if not already in it… otherwise a happy new 
year,
Martin

> 
> Ciao,
> Martin
> 
> > But, only when trying to write a file via desktop environment via dolphin
> > from KDE in that case. When I am on tty1 it seems to be stable to write to
> > the SD card. But with dolphin on writing a large few files vom /usr/bin
> > mouse pointer froze again. But according to harddisk led from ThinkPad
> > T520
> > there has been some write activity afterwards. The LED also lits up for
> > MMC
> > card accesses. Still after reboot there is none of the copied files
> > visible
> > on the FAT32 formatted SD card.
> > 
> > Thus adding Intel gfx and dri devel lists to CC.
> > 
> > 
> > This crashing only under GUI might still be a coindidence. I only tried
> > once. But since the crash usually came almost immediately and it didn´t
> > crash with reading or writing files on TTY1 and it somehow continued I/O
> > according to harddisk led instead of seeming to be completely stopped…
> > well
> > I can try again to make sure. Would be good to make it crash on TTY1 since
> > then I might see some kernel output.
> > 
> > 
> > Back to 3.12.6 for now. I just tried the same with that kernel and there
> > the copying just works nice.
> > 
> > I can also report a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org if needed.
> > 
> > 
> > May comments about bisecting still applies. I do not feel comfortable with
> > doing it on this production machine with production data on it… especially
> > given the major block layer changes. There may be points in history were
> > the kernel produces data corruption or so.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Martin
> > 
> > > merkaba:~> fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
> > > 
> > > Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.4 GB, 31439454208 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3822 cylinders, total 61405184 sectors
> > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> > > 
> > >         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > 
> > > /dev/mmcblk0p1            8192    61405183    30698496    c  W95 FAT32
> > > (LBA
> > > 
> > > 
> > > merkaba:/sys/block/mmcblk0#2> grep . * 2>/dev/null
> > > alignment_offset:0
> > > capability:10
> > > dev:179:0
> > > discard_alignment:0
> > > ext_range:8
> > > force_ro:0
> > > inflight:       0        0
> > > range:8
> > > removable:0
> > > ro:0
> > > size:61405184
> > > stat:     176       33     1672      102        0        0        0
> > > 0 0      102      102
> > > uevent:MAJOR=179
> > > uevent:MINOR=0
> > > uevent:DEVNAME=mmcblk0
> > > uevent:DEVTYPE=disk
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I do not want to take the time to diagnose this further, especially as
> > > its
> > > one of those nasty "I just lock up and I don´t tell you what went wrong"
> > > kind of bugs. Thats just not a nice way to tell that there has been an
> > > error.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If there is any five or ten minute information gathering task, I am
> > > willing
> > > to provide more information, but right now there is no chance on Earth
> > > that
> > > I will be bisecting while having a long list of more interesting things
> > > to
> > > do than that.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thus for now I just use 3.12 kernel again. Maybe I will try with some
> > > rc5
> > > or so again.
> > > 
> > > Ciao,

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