RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

[David Xu]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 19:15, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:24:36PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> T>   I wonder why UMA was suspected to be the problem. Dima gave
> T> me access to the core. Here are more details from the trace:
>
> It looks like a race between two threads in one process. Look here:
>
> (kgdb) frame 12
> #12 0xd05f4fc1 in _mtx_lock_sleep (m=0xd5dd5498, tid=3583683968, opts=0,
> file=0x12 <Address 0x12 out of bounds>, line=18) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_mutex.c:579 579                    
> turnstile_wait(&m->mtx_object, mtx_owner(m)); (kgdb) p *m
> $10 = {mtx_object = {lo_class = 0xd084e224, lo_name = 0xd080508c "process
> lock", lo_type = 0xd080508c "process lock", lo_flags = 4390912, lo_list = {
> tqe_next = 0xd5dd56b0, tqe_prev = 0xd5dd5290}, lo_witness = 0xd088a100},
> mtx_lock = 3611674882, mtx_recurse = 0} (kgdb) p ((struct thread *)tid)
> $15 = (struct thread *) 0xd59aad80
> (kgdb) p ((struct thread *)(m->mtx_lock & ~(0x1 | 0x2)))
> $17 = (struct thread *) 0xd745c900
> (kgdb) p ((struct thread *)(m->mtx_lock & ~(0x1 | 0x2)))->td_proc
> $18 = (struct proc *) 0xd5dd5430
> (kgdb) p ((struct thread *)tid)->td_proc
> $19 = (struct proc *) 0xd5dd5430
>
> So, we see that one thread blocks on the lock that is held by an
> other thread of the same process. Here they are:
>
> * 134 Thread 100198 (PID=47872: nagios)  doadump () at pcpu.h:165
>   133 Thread 100147 (PID=47872: nagios)  sched_switch (td=0xd745c900,
> newtd=0xd51f7a80, flags=2) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c:980
>
> Let's look at the second one:
>
> (kgdb) thread 133
> [Switching to thread 133 (Thread 100147)]#0  sched_switch (td=0xd745c900,
> newtd=0xd51f7a80, flags=2) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c:980 980       
>      sched_lock.mtx_lock = (uintptr_t)td;
> (kgdb) bt
> #0  sched_switch (td=0xd745c900, newtd=0xd51f7a80, flags=2) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c:980 #1  0xd0607f46 in mi_switch (flags=2,
> newtd=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:420 #2  0xd0615ecf in
> maybe_preempt_in_ksegrp (td=0xd59aad80) at kern_switch.c:467 #3  0xd06160c8
Can you try the patch ?
http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/patch/ksegrp_preempt.patch