xen/mce - mcelog at 100% cpu

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:40:15AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:51:03AM +0000, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> > >From aa2ce7440f16002266dc8464f749992d0c8ac0e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:11:16 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] xen/mce: schedule a workqueue to avoid sleep in atomic context
> > 
> > copy_to_user might sleep and print a stack trace if it is executed
> > in an atomic spinlock context.
> > 
> > This patch schedule a workqueue for IRQ handler to poll the data,
> > and use mutex instead of spinlock, so copy_to_user sleep in atomic
> > context would not occur.
> 
> Ah much better. Usually one also includes the report of what the
> stack trace was. So I've added that in.

So another bug which is that mcelog is spinning at 100% CPU (and only
under Xen).

It seems to be doing:

ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, NULL, [], 8) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
read(3, "", 2816)                       = 0
ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, NULL, [], 8) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
read(3, "", 2816) 

constantly.