[vbox-dev] VirtualBox 5.0.0 r101573 shows "scheduling while atomic" splats

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Tue Jul 14 13:51:33 GMT 2015


On Linux kernels with lockdep testing enabled, version 5.0.0 issues many of the 
following splats in the logs:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cpu.c:94
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 5748, name: EMT-0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 1 PID: 5748 Comm: EMT-0 Tainted: G        W  O    4.2.0-wd-next-wl+ #73
Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20   04/17/2014
  ffffffff81a39004 ffff88000d287c28 ffffffff817486dd 0000000000000000
  ffff88015c314d80 ffff88000d287c58 ffffffff81090117 ffff88000d287c68
  ffffffff81a39004 000000000000005e 0000000000000000 ffff88000d287c88
Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff817486dd>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
  [<ffffffff81090117>] ___might_sleep+0x147/0x1f0
  [<ffffffff8109020d>] __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
  [<ffffffff81065300>] get_online_cpus+0x20/0x80
  [<ffffffff810653aa>] ? put_online_cpus+0x4a/0x90
  [<ffffffff8100919f>] arch_jump_label_transform+0x1f/0x100
  [<ffffffff81180fd8>] __jump_label_update+0x58/0x70
  [<ffffffff81181093>] jump_label_update+0xa3/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811812f5>] static_key_slow_inc+0xb5/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8108fccd>] preempt_notifier_register+0x1d/0x60
  [<ffffffffa099166f>] VBoxHost_RTThreadCtxHookEnable+0x2f/0x50 [vboxdrv]
  [<ffffffffa097e5f1>] ? supdrvIOCtlFast+0x71/0x90 [vboxdrv]
  [<ffffffffa097b40c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_5_0_0+0x4c/0x270 [vboxdrv]
  [<ffffffff8121f2f5>] ? __fget+0x5/0x1f0
  [<ffffffff81213aad>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x30d/0x580
  [<ffffffff8121f2f5>] ? __fget+0x5/0x1f0
  [<ffffffff811dfff5>] ? kfree+0x35/0x340
  [<ffffffff8121f54a>] ? __fget_light+0x2a/0x90
  [<ffffffff81011ad6>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
  [<ffffffff81213d99>] ? SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
  [<ffffffff81751ed7>] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f

I thought that I had found this in Beta/RC testing, but I can find no evidence 
of a fix or having reported it.

Larry





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