Bug 37652 - kernel oops with latencytop
Summary: kernel oops with latencytop
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 38132
Alias: None
Product: Process Management
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: process_other
URL:
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-16 14:28 UTC by akwatts
Modified: 2011-07-10 12:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.39.1
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Regression: No
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Description akwatts 2011-06-16 14:28:27 UTC
Hi.

Using Latencytop 0.5 on a p4 with either kernels 2.6.39 or 2.6.39.1 gives the following oops:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/trace/trace.c:2725 tracing_ctrl_write+0x114/0x123()
Pid: 1797, comm: latencytop Not tainted 2.6.39 #2
Call Trace:
[<c10338d4>] warn_slowpath_common+0x67/0x8e
[<c108df49>] ? tracing_ctrl_write+0x114/0x123
[<c108df49>] ? tracing_ctrl_write+0x114/0x123
[<c1033977>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x30
[<c108df49>] tracing_ctrl_write+0x114/0x123
[<c10d61b1>] ? rw_verify_area+0x5d/0x101
[<c10d6574>] vfs_write+0x8c/0x14f
[<c108de35>] ? tracing_release+0x73/0x73
[<c10d66e5>] sys_write+0x3d/0x6b
[<c1590e93>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22
[<c158007b>] ? tg3_get_invariants+0xd0/0x209c 
[<c1580000>] ? tg3_get_invariants+0x55/0x209c
---[ end trace 6f3260379750d0f0 ]---

~ Andy

Ref: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/14/277
Comment 1 Steven Rostedt 2011-06-16 15:36:05 UTC
It's not an oops, it's a WARN_ONCE(fmt) and I'm disappointed that WARN_ONCE does not include the text of fmt within the 'cut here'.

If you go to trace.c:2725 you will see:

   /* Only need to warn if this is used to change the state */
   WARN_ONCE(1, "tracing_enabled is deprecated. Use tracing_on");

Why is latency_top monkeying around with ftrace stuff anyway? It is suppose to be using perf syscalls.

"tracing_enabled" will go away completely in the future. Don't use it.
Comment 2 akwatts 2011-06-21 02:29:09 UTC
Many thanks for taking the time to clarify this for me (I should have looked at things more closely).

I agree entirely with you, though, that having the fmt text inside the cut-here block would be quite helpful.

Is there any value in keeping this report open so others can react to or address the points you make?
Comment 3 Florian Mickler 2011-06-27 21:03:12 UTC
There was at one point a patch somewhere which changed the 

----- cut here ---- 

marker into

------ trace begin, please include the message above ----

 or something like  that... but i think it wasn't merged as to not break tools parsing this stuff... :|
Comment 4 Florian Mickler 2011-07-10 12:41:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38132 ***

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