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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rafael David Tinoco <inaddy@ubuntu.com>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano@canonical.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: smp_call_function_single lockups
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:45:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150403054512.GA11041@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551DB0E2.1020607@canonical.com>


* Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 04/02/2015 02:07 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Whenever we look through the crashdump we see csd_lock_wait waiting 
> >> for CSD_FLAG_LOCK bit to be cleared.  Usually the signature leading 
> >> up to that looks like the following (in the openstack tempest on 
> >> openstack and nested VM stress case)
> >>
> >> (qemu-system-x86 task)
> >> kvm_sched_in
> >>  -> kvm_arch_vcpu_load
> >>   -> vmx_vcpu_load
> >>    -> loaded_vmcs_clear
> >>     -> smp_call_function_single
> >>
> >> (ksmd task)
> >> pmdp_clear_flush
> >>  -> flush_tlb_mm_range
> >>   -> native_flush_tlb_others
> >>     -> smp_call_function_many
> > 
> > So is this two separate smp_call_function instances, crossing each 
> > other, and none makes any progress, indefinitely - as if the two IPIs 
> > got lost?
> > 
> 
> This is two different crash signatures. Sorry for the confusion.

So just in case, both crash signatures ought to be detected by the 
patch I just sent.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-03  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11 13:19 smp_call_function_single lockups Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-11 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-11 19:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-11 20:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-12 16:38       ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-18 22:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-19 15:42         ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:14           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-23 14:01             ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-23 19:32               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-23 20:50                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-23 21:02                   ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:16           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-19 16:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 16:32             ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:59               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 17:30                 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 17:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 20:29                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 21:59                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 22:45                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31  3:15                         ` Chris J Arges
2015-03-31  4:28                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 10:56                             ` [debug PATCHes] " Ingo Molnar
2015-03-31 22:38                               ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 12:39                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 14:10                                   ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 14:55                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-31  4:46                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 15:08                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 22:23                             ` Chris J Arges
2015-03-31 23:07                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 14:32                                 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 15:36                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02  9:55                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 17:35                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 12:43                               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 16:10                                 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 16:14                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 21:59                                     ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-02 17:31                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02 18:26                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 18:51                                           ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-02 19:07                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 20:57                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02 21:13                                               ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-03  5:43                                                 ` [PATCH] smp/call: Detect stuck CSD locks Ingo Molnar
2015-04-03  5:47                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-06 16:58                                                   ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-06 17:32                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-07  9:21                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-07 20:59                                                         ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-07 21:15                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-08  6:47                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-13  3:56                                                             ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-13  6:14                                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-15 19:54                                                                 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-16 11:04                                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-16 15:58                                                                     ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-16 16:31                                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-29 21:08                                                                         ` Chris J Arges
2015-05-11 14:00                                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 18:19                                                                             ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-03  5:45                                                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-04-06 17:23                                         ` smp_call_function_single lockups Chris J Arges
2015-02-20  9:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 16:49                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-20 19:41                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 20:03                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-20 20:11                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-20 10:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-20 16:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-20 17:14           ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-01 14:22       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-18 10:13       ` [tip:locking/urgent] smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-02-22  8:59 smp_call_function_single lockups Daniel J Blueman
2015-02-22 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar

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