Re: [REGRESSION] NMI received for unknown reason 3c on CPU 0, strange powersaving mode?

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Srivatsa S. Bhat:
> On 03/30/2012 04:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Since some time I am seeing things like
> > 
> > Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
> > 
> >  kernel:[49074.294260] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3c on
> >  CPU 0.
> > 
> > Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
> > 
> >  kernel:[49074.294263] Do you have a strange power saving mode
> >  enabled?
> > 
> > Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
> > 
> >  kernel:[49074.294264] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> > 
> > on resume after in-kernel hibernation.
> 
> Do you see this after suspend-to-ram too?
> 
> > I do not see any trace of it in syslog, kern.log or dmesg.
> > 
> > From the timestemp it seems that these messages are issued shortly
> > before I send the laptop to hibernation last night.
> > 
> > 
> > I am using a ThinkPad T520 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @
> > 2.50GHz and Sandybridge graphics.
> > 
> > I am not exactly sure since when it happens, cause I basically
> > ignored it for quite some time. Might be some 3.2 kernel where it
> > started, maybe even the first 3.2 kernel I had. Currently I am
> > using:
> > 
> > martin@merkaba:~> cat /proc/version
> > Linux version 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (Debian 3.3-1~experimental.1)
> > (debian- kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian
> > 4.6.3-1) ) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 18:02:10 UTC 2012
> > 
> > Since I am quite sure I didn´t see this with the first kernel I used
> > on this machine, which was a 2.6.39 if I remember correctly, I
> > consider this to be a regression for now.
> > 
> > 
> > I did not see any other strange effects, only this message.
> > 
> > 
> > When searching for it I see quite some references¹. But what I looked
> > at seemed to either quite old or different in that the machine was
> > frozen then.
> 
> There was once such a bug report and commit 144060fee (perf: Add PM
> notifiers to fix CPU hotplug races) tried to fix it, however it didn't
> work out IIRC.
> 
> Can you please try out the pm-test framework and let us know in which
> phase this message is encountered?
> Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
> 
> 1. Recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PM_DEBUG=y
> 2. # cat /sys/power/pm_test
> 3. # echo <value> > /sys/power/pm_test
>    Use the values from the list given in step 2.
>    From freezer to core, it is increasing depth of suspend phase.
> 4. # echo mem > /sys/power/state  (for suspend-to-ram)
>    or echo disk > /sys/power/state  (for suspend-to-disk)
> 
> It would be great if you could tell which of the phases (freezer to
> core) fails.

Here I have the one from this morning. This time as resume time:

martin@merkaba:~> 
Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr  3 09:10:15 ...
 kernel:[ 3755.145282] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3c on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr  3 09:10:15 ...
 kernel:[ 3755.145285] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr  3 09:10:15 ...
 kernel:[ 3755.145286] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue


And here are the tests - short summary I was not able to reproduce the 
issue - nothing means that there was no furch NMI message on the Konsole 
window where it usually appears:

merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test 
[none] core processors platform devices freezer
merkaba:~> echo "core" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state  
merkaba:~> echo nothing               
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
merkaba:~> echo nothing
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "processors" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state         
merkaba:~> echo nothing                          
nothing
merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test        
none core [processors] platform devices freezer
merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
merkaba:~> echo nothing                  
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "platform" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state         
merkaba:~> echo nothing                 
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
merkaba:~> echo nothing                        
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "devices" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state      
merkaba:~> echo nothing                       
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state  
merkaba:~> echo nothing                  
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "freezer" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state      
merkaba:~> echo nothing                       
nothing
merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
merkaba:~> echo nothing                  
nothing


Now trying a regular hibernation:

merkaba:~> echo "none" > /sys/power/pm_test
merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test
[none] core processors platform devices freezer


Nothing.


Now trying a regular hibernation with some minutes downtime and
unplugging the power from the laptop.


Nothing as well.


Now I am puzzled.


Maybe its the switch from minidock to no dock and vice versa?

Ciao,
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