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Francois reported that VMware balloon gets stuck after a balloon reset, when the VMCI doorbell is removed. A similar error can occur when the balloon driver is removed with the following splat: [ 1088.622000] INFO: task modprobe:3565 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 1088.622035] Tainted: G W 5.2.0 #4 [ 1088.622087] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 1088.622205] modprobe D 0 3565 1450 0x00000000 [ 1088.622210] Call Trace: [ 1088.622246] __schedule+0x2a8/0x690 [ 1088.622248] schedule+0x2d/0x90 [ 1088.622250] schedule_timeout+0x1d3/0x2f0 [ 1088.622252] wait_for_completion+0xba/0x140 [ 1088.622320] ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80 [ 1088.622370] vmci_resource_remove+0xb9/0xc0 [vmw_vmci] [ 1088.622373] vmci_doorbell_destroy+0x9e/0xd0 [vmw_vmci] [ 1088.622379] vmballoon_vmci_cleanup+0x6e/0xf0 [vmw_balloon] [ 1088.622381] vmballoon_exit+0x18/0xcc8 [vmw_balloon] [ 1088.622394] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x146/0x280 [ 1088.622408] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x130 [ 1088.622410] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 1088.622415] RIP: 0033:0x7f54f62791b7 [ 1088.622421] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 1088.622421] RSP: 002b:00007fff2a949008 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000b0 [ 1088.622426] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055dff8b55d00 RCX: 00007f54f62791b7 [ 1088.622426] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 000055dff8b55d68 [ 1088.622427] RBP: 000055dff8b55d00 R08: 00007fff2a947fb1 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 1088.622427] R10: 00007f54f62f5cc0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055dff8b55d68 [ 1088.622428] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 000055dff8b55d68 R15: 00007fff2a94a3f0 The cause for the bug is that when the "delayed" doorbell is invoked, it takes a reference on the doorbell entry and schedules work that is supposed to run the appropriate code and drop the doorbell entry reference. The code ignores the fact that if the work is already queued, it will not be scheduled to run one more time. As a result one of the references would not be dropped. When the code waits for the reference to get to zero, during balloon reset or module removal, it gets stuck. Fix it. Drop the reference if schedule_work() indicates that the work is already queued. Note that this bug got more apparent (or apparent at all) due to commit |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.