On Sunday, July 31, 2016 11:29:14 AM Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:03:59 -0700
> John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, July 30, 2016 09:44:22 AM Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:17:42 -0700
> > > John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Thursday, July 28, 2016 12:31:31 AM Gary Jennejohn wrote:  
> > > > > Well, now I know that ULE is a prerequiste for EARLY_AP_STARTUP!  I
> > > > > wasn't aware of that.  I prefer BSD and that's the scheduler I did
> > > > > the first tests with.
> > > > > 
> > > > > But with the ULE scheduler the system comes up all the way.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It would be nice if the BSD scheduler could also be modified to
> > > > > work with EARLY_AP_STARTUP.    
> > > > 
> > > > I wasn't able to reproduce your hang with 4BSD, but I think I see a
> > > > possible problem.  Try this:
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c b/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > > > index 7de56b6..d53331a 100644
> > > > --- a/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > > > +++ b/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > > > @@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ maybe_preempt(struct thread *td)
> > > >          *  - The current thread has a higher (numerically lower) or
> > > >          *    equivalent priority.  Note that this prevents curthread 
> > > > from
> > > >          *    trying to preempt to itself.
> > > > -        *  - It is too early in the boot for context switches (cold is 
> > > > set).
> > > >          *  - The current thread has an inhibitor set or is in the 
> > > > process of
> > > >          *    exiting.  In this case, the current thread is about to 
> > > > switch
> > > >          *    out anyways, so there's no point in preempting.  If we 
> > > > did,
> > > > @@ -348,7 +347,7 @@ maybe_preempt(struct thread *td)
> > > >                         ("maybe_preempt: trying to run inhibited 
> > > > thread"));
> > > >         pri = td->td_priority;
> > > >         cpri = ctd->td_priority;
> > > > -       if (panicstr != NULL || pri >= cpri || cold /* || dumping */ ||
> > > > +       if (panicstr != NULL || pri >= cpri /* || dumping */ ||
> > > >             TD_IS_INHIBITED(ctd))
> > > >                 return (0);
> > > >  #ifndef FULL_PREEMPTION
> > > > @@ -1127,7 +1126,7 @@ forward_wakeup(int cpunum)
> > > >         if ((!forward_wakeup_enabled) ||
> > > >              (forward_wakeup_use_mask == 0 && forward_wakeup_use_loop 
> > > > == 0))
> > > >                 return (0);
> > > > -       if (!smp_started || cold || panicstr)
> > > > +       if (!smp_started || panicstr)
> > > >                 return (0);
> > > >  
> > > >         forward_wakeups_requested++;
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but with this patch the kernel hangs in exactly the same
> > > place as before - after the HPET output.
> > > 
> > > Maybe I'm missing some kernel option which ULE works around, or
> > > something like that.  
> > 
> > Hmm, ok.  Please add KTR_RUNQ and KTR_SMP to the KTR masks, that is
> > 'options KTR_COMPILE=(KTR_PROC|KTR_RUNQ|KTR_SMP)' and
> > 'options KTR_MASK=(KTR_PROC|KTR_RUNQ|KTR_SMP)'
> > 
> > Please also add this patch (on top of the previous patch):
> > 
> > diff --git a/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c b/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > index 2973a23..bab2278 100644
> > --- a/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > +++ b/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c
> > @@ -1278,6 +1278,8 @@ sched_add(struct thread *td, int flags)
> >         KASSERT(td->td_flags & TDF_INMEM,
> >             ("sched_add: thread swapped out"));
> >  
> > +       CTR2(KTR_PROC, "sched_add: thread %d (%s)", td->td_tid,
> > +           sched_tdname(td));
> >         KTR_STATE2(KTR_SCHED, "thread", sched_tdname(td), "runq add",
> >             "prio:%d", td->td_priority, KTR_ATTR_LINKED,
> >             sched_tdname(curthread));
> > diff --git a/sys/x86/x86/cpu_machdep.c b/sys/x86/x86/cpu_machdep.c
> > index f07b97e..1f418f1 100644
> > --- a/sys/x86/x86/cpu_machdep.c
> > +++ b/sys/x86/x86/cpu_machdep.c
> > @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ cpu_idle_wakeup(int cpu)
> >                 return (0);
> >         if (*state == STATE_MWAIT)
> >                 *state = STATE_RUNNING;
> > +       CTR1(KTR_PROC, "cpu_idle_wakeup: wokeup CPU %d", cpu);
> >         return (1);
> >  }
> > 
> > (I haven't tried compiling it, you might have to add the sys/ktr.h
> > header to cpu_machdep.c if it doesn't build.)
> > 
> > Hopefully we will get some better trace messages before it hangs
> > with this added info.  The root issue seems to be that 4BSD is
> > pinning thread0 to some other CPU (due to sched_bind that happens
> > inside of bus_bind_intr() when the HPET driver pins IRQs to CPUs)
> > and that other CPU isn't waking up to realize it needs to run thread0.
> > 
> 
> It compiled with no changes needed.
> 
> Even though I set MAXCPU to a mere 2, the boot still hadn't
> completed after 90 minutes and I broke it off.  I still have
> the kernel, so I can try it another time when I have less need
> for my FreeBSD box.

Did you have the KTR options enabled from before?  I don't expect this
to fix the issue, this is more about getting better debug info when it
hangs.

-- 
John Baldwin
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