I need a little help in fixing `exclusive sleep mutex urtwn0_com_lock` in CURRENT

Aleksander Alekseev mail at eax.me
Thu Mar 31 21:23:49 UTC 2016


> > By any chance is it possible to trace mtx_lock / mtx_unlock calls
> > using DTrace? I see number of probes in `dtrace -l` which look like
> > something I need. Unfortunately they are named like knlist_mtx_lock
> > or do_lock_umutex so I can't figure out whether these are probes I
> > looking for or not.  
> 
> Yes. You can use the lockstat provider to trace lock events:
> "dtrace -l -P lockstat". Predicates can be used to isolate events
> related to a specific lock. For example:
> 
> # dtrace -n
> 'lockstat:::adaptive-acquire /args[0]->lock_object.lo_name ==
> "so_snd"/{stack();}'
> 
> will print a stack every time a socket send buffer lock is acquired.
> In general, the lock name is specified as an initialization parameter.
> In your case it'll be "urtwn0_com_lock".
> 
> lockstat(1) is a command-line program that's good at aggregating data
> collected from lockstat probes; for the type of debugging you're doing
> it's probably not very useful.
> 
> Note that DTrace probably isn't very helpful here if the panic occurs
> immediately after the event you're interested in occurs, since
> dtrace(1) won't have time to retrieve the trace record and print it.

Thanks, Mark.

Here is a funny thing. I thought that by writing debug.witness.watch=0
to /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooting I will give DTrace some time to
report who acquired a lock and didn't released it. But in this case
kernel crashed differently (I checked twice):

http://pastebin.com/raw/f08Fd70B

And here is saved DTrace log for lock "urtwn0_com_lock":

http://pastebin.com/raw/0X9zgeiY

If I'm not wrong everything is OK. No missing mtx_unlock this time.

Not sure what to do next so far. And it's pretty late here in UTC+3
already so I will think about this tomorrow. Any advices would be
appreciated.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/


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