On 15.03.2011, at 06:29, Bharat Bhushan wrote:

> Following dump is observed on host when clearing the exit timing counters
> 
> [root@p1021mds kvm]# echo -n 'c' > vm1200_vcpu0_timing
> INFO: task echo:1276 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> echo          D 0ff5bf94     0  1276   1190 0x00000000
> Call Trace:
> [c2157e40] [c0007908] __switch_to+0x9c/0xc4
> [c2157e50] [c040293c] schedule+0x1b4/0x3bc
> [c2157e90] [c04032dc] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x74/0xc0
> [c2157ec0] [c00369e4] kvmppc_init_timing_stats+0x20/0xb8
> [c2157ed0] [c0036b00] kvmppc_exit_timing_write+0x84/0x98
> [c2157ef0] [c00b9f90] vfs_write+0xc0/0x16c
> [c2157f10] [c00ba284] sys_write+0x4c/0x90
> [c2157f40] [c000e320] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
> 
>        The vcpu->mutex is used by kvm_ioctl_* (KVM_RUN etc) and same was
> used when clearing the stats (in kvmppc_init_timing_stats()). What happens
> is that when the guest is idle then it held the vcpu->mutx. While the
> exiting timing process waits for guest to release the vcpu->mutex and
> a hang state is reached.
> 
>        Now using seprate lock for exit timing stats.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhus...@freescale.com>

Looks good from a 10000 feet perspective. My BookE box is currently down, so I 
can't test it, but I assume you have verified it works just fine?
If so, please CC k...@vger.kernel.org, so Avi can take it in the tree with my 
signed-off (after I tested it ;)).


Alex

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