From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757461Ab2IKXle (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:41:34 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:13236 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484Ab2IKXlc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:41:32 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,407,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="220944876" Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:41:30 +0800 From: Fengguang Wu To: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , LKML Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 1024s! Message-ID: <20120911234130.GA13382@localhost> References: <20120909075927.GA13058@localhost> <504E1E19.9050106@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <504E1E19.9050106@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:06:33AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On 09/09/2012 12:59 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote: > >Hi John, > > > >The below lockup warning pops up very occasionally in kvm guest > >kernels and it's bisected down to > > > > commit 2a8c0883c3cfffcc148ea606e2a4e7453cd75e73 > > Author: John Stultz > > Date: Fri Jul 13 01:21:56 2012 -0400 > > > > time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling timekeeping_adjust > > > >[ 8.340327] Freeing unused kernel memory: 460k freed > >[ 1107.515496] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated > >[ 1107.516439] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 1024s! [swapper/1:0] > > > Thanks so much for sending this. One detail I'm curious about is > that these kernels from the Bug messages seem to be v3.6-rc1 or > earlier. > > Ingo had a fix 1d17d17484d40f2d5b35c79518597a2b25296996 ("time: Fix > adjustment cleanup bug in timekeeping_adjust") that landed in > 3.6-rc2 > > Has this issue actually been seen on a 3.6-rc2+ kernel? Nope. I tested -rc5 for 10000+ boots and it's obviously free from the bug. Sorry for the noise! Thanks, Fengguang