On a slow machine (with debugging enabled), during a yum update I get the soft lockup detector kicking in when it gets to reloading the selinux policy. It looks like this..
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [load_policy:19045] irq event stamp: 2368864 hardirqs last enabled at (2368863): [<ffffffff8152ab5d>] __slab_alloc.constprop.78+0x4c0/0x4d7 hardirqs last disabled at (2368864): [<ffffffff8153c82a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x80 softirqs last enabled at (2368554): [<ffffffff810480b9>] __do_softirq+0x169/0x200 softirqs last disabled at (2368539): [<ffffffff8104837d>] irq_exit+0x11d/0x140 CPU: 2 PID: 19045 Comm: load_policy Not tainted 3.11.0+ #16 Hardware name: /D510MO, BIOS MOPNV10J.86A.0175.2010.0308.0620 03/08/2010 task: ffff88005ab38000 ti: ffff880019620000 task.ti: ffff880019620000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81274273>] [<ffffffff81274273>] strcmp+0x23/0x40 RSP: 0018:ffff880019621818 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000063 RBX: ffff880018090ca8 RCX: 0000000000006070 RDX: ffff88000781d8f0 RSI: ffff88000781d8f1 RDI: ffff880079caed21 RBP: ffff880019621818 R08: ffff88006345a290 R09: ffff880018091680 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000292 R13: 0000000180160016 R14: ffff88007b804488 R15: ffffffff81221430 FS: 00007f73e1212800(0000) GS:ffff88007e600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f73e0857aa0 CR3: 0000000076fea000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 Stack: ffff880019621828 ffffffff81221ddf ffff880019621850 ffffffff81221c27 ffff8800180ac6d8 ffff880019621b88 ffffffff82759620 ffff8800196218a0 ffffffff8122e96c 0000000181221e05 ffff880018091680 0000000000000080 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81221ddf>] symcmp+0xf/0x20 [<ffffffff81221c27>] hashtab_search+0x47/0x80 [<ffffffff8122e96c>] mls_convert_context+0xdc/0x1c0 [<ffffffff812294e8>] convert_context+0x378/0x460 [<ffffffff81229170>] ? security_context_to_sid_core+0x240/0x240 [<ffffffff812221b5>] sidtab_map+0x45/0x80 [<ffffffff8122bb9f>] security_load_policy+0x3ff/0x580 [<ffffffff810788a8>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100 [<ffffffff810786dd>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x80 [<ffffffff810788a8>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100 [<ffffffff8103096a>] ? __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x82a/0xa50 [<ffffffff810786dd>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x80 [<ffffffff810788a8>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100 [<ffffffff8103096a>] ? __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x82a/0xa50 [<ffffffff810788a8>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100 [<ffffffff81534ddc>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe [<ffffffff8109c82d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0 [<ffffffff81279a2e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff810d28a8>] ? rcu_irq_exit+0x68/0xb0 [<ffffffff81534ddc>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe [<ffffffff8121e947>] sel_write_load+0xa7/0x770 [<ffffffff81139633>] ? vfs_write+0x1c3/0x200 [<ffffffff81210e8e>] ? security_file_permission+0x1e/0xa0 [<ffffffff8113952b>] vfs_write+0xbb/0x200 [<ffffffff811581c7>] ? fget_light+0x397/0x4b0 [<ffffffff81139c27>] SyS_write+0x47/0xa0 [<ffffffff8153bde4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 Code: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 eb 0e 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 84 c0 74 1c 48 83 c7 01 0f b6 47 ff 48 83 c6 01 3a 46 ff <74> eb 19 c0 83 c8 01 5d c3 0f 1f 40 00 31 c0 5d c3 66 66 66 2e 23s in the kernel is an eternity. Short of rearchitecting how policy loads are done, perhaps we could do something like this ? (untested, and 10000 is arbitarily chosen, may need to be adjusted) thoughts ? Dave diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c index 933e735..69a0587 100644 --- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c +++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c @@ -75,14 +75,21 @@ void *hashtab_search(struct hashtab *h, const void *key) { u32 hvalue; struct hashtab_node *cur; + int count; if (!h) return NULL; hvalue = h->hash_value(h, key); cur = h->htable[hvalue]; - while (cur && h->keycmp(h, key, cur->key) > 0) + while (cur && h->keycmp(h, key, cur->key) > 0) { cur = cur->next; + count++; + if (count == 10000) { + touch_softlockup_watchdog(); + count = 0; + } + } if (cur == NULL || (h->keycmp(h, key, cur->key) != 0)) return NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/