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Hi,

On 12/02/2013 03:27 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 02.12.2013, at 05:01, Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/30/2013 11:15 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> With current linus master (3.13-rc2+) I'm facing an interesting issue with
>>
>> SMT disabling on p7. When I trigger the cpu offlining it works as expected,
>> but after a few seconds the machine goes into an oops as you can see below.
>>>
>>> It looks like a null pointer dereference.
>>
>> tip/sched/urgent has the below fix. Can you please apply the following it and
>> check if the issue gets resolved?  A similar issue was reported earlier as
> 
> I've disabled NO_HZ now on that machine which also "fixed" it for me. Unfortunately I can't reboot that box for at least the next week now to test whether the patch does fix the issue.

The commit 37dc6b50cee9 that has caused this regression is around NO_HZ.
It decides when to kick nohz idle balancing.

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
> 
> 
> Alex
>