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From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
	Saket Kumar Bhaskar <skb99@linux.ibm.com>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [bpf] Observing Kernel Softlock up while running BPF self tests
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:40:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6926384-0b4e-44e2-a828-1ddb57500b3b@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Greetings!!!


IBM CI has reported a kernel softlockup, while running BPF selftests on 
PowerPC kernel.


Traces:

[ 1632.509843] audit: type=1334 audit(1769127975.721:164430): 
prog-id=82135 op=LOAD
[ 1632.509852] audit: type=1334 audit(1769127975.721:164431): 
prog-id=82135 op=UNLOAD
[ 1637.016921] Mode = AA
[ 1660.780274] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s! 
[rqsl_w/8:51609]
[ 1660.780283] Modules linked in: bpf_test_rqspinlock(OE+) 8021q(E) 
garp(E) mrp(E) stp(E) llc(E) vrf(E) tun(E) bpf_testmod(OE) veth(E) 
nft_fib_inet(E) nft_fib_ipv4(E) nft_fib_ipv6(E) nft_fib(E) 
nft_reject_inet(E) nf_reject_ipv4(E) nf_reject_ipv6(E) nft_reject(E) 
bonding(E) nft_ct(E) tls(E) nft_chain_nat(E) rfkill(E) sunrpc(E) 
ibmveth(E) hvcs(E) hvcserver(E) pseries_rng(E) vmx_crypto(E) 
dm_multipath(E) fuse(E) dm_mod(E) drm(E) drm_panel_orientation_quirks(E) 
zram(E) ext4(E) crc16(E) mbcache(E) jbd2(E) sr_mod(E) sd_mod(E) cdrom(E) 
ibmvscsi(E) scsi_transport_srp(E) [last unloaded: livepatch_sample(EK)]
[ 1660.780352] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 51609 Comm: rqsl_w/8 Tainted: G       
    OE K     6.19.0-rc4-g960c1fd29055 #1 VOLUNTARY
[ 1660.780359] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE, [K]=LIVEPATCH
[ 1660.780362] Hardware name: IBM,8375-42A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 
0xf000005 of:IBM,FW950.80 (VL950_131) hv:phyp pSeries
[ 1660.780365] NIP:  c0000000000399a8 LR: c000000000039c24 CTR: 
c000000000039ca0
[ 1660.780368] REGS: c000000bc19cfd28 TRAP: 0900   Tainted: G      OE K  
     (6.19.0-rc4-g960c1fd29055)
[ 1660.780372] MSR:  800000000280b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  
CR: 28000288  XER: 0000000a
[ 1660.780386] CFAR: 0000000000000000 IRQMASK: 0
[ 1660.780386] GPR00: c000000000039c24 c000000bc19cfd00 c000000001f58100 
c000000bc19cfcf8
[ 1660.780386] GPR04: c000000bc19cfea8 0000000000000000 4000000000000002 
c0000013ff916e08
[ 1660.780386] GPR08: 00000013fd6c0000 0000000000000049 fffffffffffffffc 
c0080000f73e0f98
[ 1660.780386] GPR12: c000000000039ca0 c00000002e9b6700 c000000000270808 
c000000bad8fe980
[ 1660.780386] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
0000000000000000
[ 1660.780386] GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
0000000000000000
[ 1660.780386] GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0080000f7360048 
0000000000000000
[ 1660.780386] GPR28: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 000001827223b155 
0000000000000003
[ 1660.780433] NIP [c0000000000399a8] __replay_soft_interrupts+0x38/0x150
[ 1660.780443] LR [c000000000039c24] 
arch_local_irq_restore.part.0+0xe4/0x160
[ 1660.780449] Call Trace:
[ 1660.780452] [c000000bc19cfd00] [c000000000039a0c] 
__replay_soft_interrupts+0x9c/0x150 (unreliable)
[ 1660.780460] [c000000bc19cfeb0] [c000000000039c24] 
arch_local_irq_restore.part.0+0xe4/0x160
[ 1660.780468] [c000000bc19cfef0] [c0080000f73e042c] 
rqspinlock_worker_fn+0x244/0x300 [bpf_test_rqspinlock]
[ 1660.780476] [c000000bc19cff90] [c000000000270954] kthread+0x154/0x170
[ 1660.780482] [c000000bc19cffe0] [c00000000000df78] 
start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
[ 1660.780487] Code: 60000000 7c0802a6 f8010010 f821fe51 e92d0c78 
f92101a8 39200000 38610028 892d0933 61290040 992d0933 48102e15 
<60000000> 39200000 e9410130 f9210160



If you happen to fix this, Please add below tag.


Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>



Regards,

Venkat.




             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-20  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-20  9:10 Venkat Rao Bagalkote [this message]
2026-01-22 17:01 ` [bpf] Observing Kernel Softlock up while running BPF self tests Hari Bathini
2026-01-29 19:47 ` Saket Kumar Bhaskar

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