lock_release+0x58/0x195 > [ 2.709588] [] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x80 > [ 2.709588] [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x5a/0x80 > [ 2.709588] [] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe > [ 2.709588] [] notify_die+0x2d/0x2f > [ 2.709588] [] do_debug+0x67/0xfe > [ 2.709588] [] debug_stack_correct+0x27/0x30 > [ 2.709588] [] ? kprobe_target+0x1/0x34 > [ 2.709588] [] ? init_test_probes+0x50/0x186 > [ 2.709588] [] init_kprobes+0x85/0x8c > [ 2.709588] [] kernel_init+0x13d/0x298 > [ 2.709588] [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x298 > [ 2.709588] [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x298 > [ 2.709588] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > [ 2.709588] ======================= > [ 2.709588] ---[ end trace 778e504de7e3b1e3 ]--- > [ 2.709588] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off. > [ 2.709588] irq event stamp: 370065 > [ 2.709588] hardirqs last enabled at (370065): [] kprobe_exceptions_notify+0x322/0x3af > [ 2.709588] hardirqs last disabled at (370064): [] do_int3+0x1d/0x7d > [ 2.709588] softirqs last enabled at (370050): [] __do_softirq+0xfa/0x100 > [ 2.709588] softirqs last disabled at (370045): [] do_softirq+0x74/0xd9 > [ 2.714751] Kprobe smoke test passed successfully how I love this stuff... Ok, do_debug() is a trap, this can happen at any time regardless of the machine's IRQ state. So the first thing we do is fix up the IRQ state. Then we call this die notifier stuff; and return with messed up IRQ state... YAY. So, kprobes fudges it.. notify_die(DIE_DEBUG) kprobe_exceptions_notify() post_kprobe_handler() modify regs->flags trace_hardirqs_fixup_flags(regs->flags); <--- must be it So what's the use of modifying flags if they're not meant to take effect at some point. /me tries to reproduce issue; enable kprobes test thingy && boot OK, that reproduces.. So the below makes it work - but I'm not getting this code; at the time I wrote that stuff I CC'ed each and every kprobe maintainer listed in the usual places but got no reposonse - can some please explain this stuff to me? Are the saved flags only for the TF bit or are they made in full effect later (and if so, where) ? Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar