Re: Witness finds "malloc(M_WAITOK) with non-sleepable lock held" in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (amd64)

John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> David Christensen wrote this message on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 21:55 -0800:
> 
>>I'm developing an Ethernet driver with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (amd64) and
>>I'm 
>>receiving many of the following witness errors:
>>
>>malloc(M_WAITOK) of "128", forcing M_NOWAIT with the following
>>non-sleepable locks held:
>>exclusive sleep mutex bce0 (network driver) r = 0 (0xffffffff8111e068)
>>locked _at_ if_bce.c:4607
>>KDB: stack backtrace:
>>kdb_backtrace() at kdb_backtrace+0x37
>>witness_warn() at witness_warn+0x2c1
>>uma_zalloc_arg() at uma_zalloc_arg+0x69
>>malloc() at malloc+0xf5
>>sysctl_add_oid() at sysctl_add_oid+0xa9
>>alloc_bounce_zone() at alloc_bounce_zone+0x16b
>>bus_dma_tag_create() at bus_dma_tag_create+0x1ea
>>bce_init_rx_chain() at bce_init_rx_chain+0x8e
>>bce_init_locked() at bce_init_locked+0x1e2
>>bce_init() at bce_init+0x39
>>ether_ioctl() at ether_ioctl+0x87
>>bce_ioctl() at bce_ioctl+0x48e
>>in6_ifinit() at in6_ifinit+0xbd
>>in6_update_ifa() at in6_update_ifa+0x563
>>in6_ifattach_linklocal() at in6_ifattach_linklocal+0x126
>>in6_ifattach() at in6_ifattach+0xdf
>>in6_if_up() at in6_if_up+0x59
>>if_route() at if_route+0x8a
>>if_up() at if_up+0x13
>>ifhwioctl() at ifhwioctl+0x2f4
>>ifioctl() at ifioctl+0x10b
>>soo_ioctl() at soo_ioctl+0x38c
>>ioctl() at ioctl+0x436
>>syscall() at syscall+0x350
>>Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xa8
>>--- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF64, ioctl), rip = 0x8008219ac, rsp =
>>0x7fffffffe6b8, rbp = 0x1 ---
>>
>>The bus_dma_tag_create looks like this:
>>
>>bus_dma_tag_create(
>>	sc->parent_tag,		/* parent      */
>>    	4096,				/* alignment   */
>>    	0,				/* boundary    */
>>	BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR,	/* lowaddr     */
>>	BUS_SPACE_MAX_ADDR,	/* lowaddr     */
>>	NULL,				/* filter      */
>>	NULL, 			/* filterarg   */
>>	4096,				/* maxsize     */
>>	1, 				/* nsegments   */
>>	4096,				/* maxsegsize  */
>>	BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW, 	/* flags       */
>>	NULL,				/* lockfunc    */
>>	NULL,				/* lockarg     */
>>	&sc->rx_bd_chain_tag));
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong?  The function bce_init_rx_chain is called
>>from with
>>a lock but isn't that normal?
> 
> 
> Yeh, you have to unlock your driver lock before calling
> bus_dma_tag_create..  If you look at the other ethernet drivers, some
> call _tag_create as part of attach, not in _init...  at this point,
> it's safe to release your lock and allocate memory...
> 

In fact, it's really bad to be initializing the rx data structures like 
this in if_init.  It should be done in dev_attach.  The reason is that
if_init can be called at any time and will almost certainly be called
multiple times.  Also, do not use the BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW flag here, as I
assume that you are trying to use the busdma tag to allocate a static
piece of memory for the rx chain/ring.  The flag should only be used
for flags that deal with dynamic buffers like mbufs and bio_data
objects, or memory that has been allocated in the kernel with normal
malloc.

Scott