Re: BUG: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs

mitko
2017-05-09T07:53:36Z

On 2017-05-08 16:24, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 09:43:15AM +0300, mitko@stz-bg.com wrote:
>> On 2017-01-20 17:19, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> >On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:43:50 +0200
>> >mitko@stz-bg.com wrote:
>> >
>> >>[1.] One line summary of the problem:
>> >>
>> >>rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs and few minutes server not respond.
>> >
>> >Is this reproducible? Or was this a one time ordeal?
>> >
>> >>
>> >>[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>> >>
>> >>Load of my server (postgres database) isnt big less then 0.50 and when
>> >>error occured rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs
>> >>server freeze and nothing is work for 3-5 minute.
>> >>No network, no video signal, no keyboard, no mouse. Nothing is worked.
>> >>After these few minutes everything continue normal.
>> >>This usual is happend once per day. When I check in google find a lots
>> >>of ppl complain of this error, but no solution.
>> >>Do any one know can help me to resolve it ? I spoke with few
>> >>friends and
>> >>they trying to convince me the problem is in CPU.
>> >>I did not believe after a 3 years working CPU suddenly stop working
>> >>correctly, but I might be wrong.
>> >>
>> >>[3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
>> >>
>> >>kernel
>> >>
>> >>[4.] Kernel information
>> >>[4.1.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
>> >>
>> >>Linux version 4.4.38 (root@hive64) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) #2
>> >>SMP Sun
>> >>Dec 11 16:11:02 CST 2016
>> >>
>> >
>> >Have you tried a newer version of the kernel?
>> >
>> >-- Steve
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> yesterday I change to new kernel: 4.9.26 and still no effect.
>>
>> I trying to figure out what I need to buy because I read on google a
>> lots of posts about that problem,
>> some ppl suggest is BIOS firmware bug, some ppl tell that when they
>> swap CPU problem is resolved.
>> May be problem was started when I first time boot 4.x kernel and
>> there have cpu microcode updates.
>> Im 3.x kernels this feature was not in kernel, but I don't know,
>> only guess.
>>
>> Can some one point me clearly: You need to change this one and
>> problem will be solved ?
>
> Looking back at your earlier email, I see the following:
>
> [Wed Jan 4 10:19:12 2017] rcu_sched kthread starved for 60004
> jiffies! g61967937 c61967936 f0x0 s3 ->state=0x1
>
> That indicates that the task "rcu_sched" isn't being allowed to run.
> The "->state=0x1" indicates that this task is currently asleep and the
> "s3" indicates that it is looking to start a grace period, but has not
> progressed through this task. My guess is that your system get very
> busy, and that rcu_sched's normal scheduling priority is not sufficient
> for it to be allowed to run.
>
> I therefore suggest that you try raising the rcu_sched task's priority.
>
> You can find this task like this:
>
> ps -ef | grep rcu_sched
>
> On my laptop, I get this:
>
> $ ps -ef | grep rcu_sched
> root 7 2 0 Apr11 ? 00:19:19 [rcu_sched]
> paulmck 18307 22926 0 06:11 pts/35 00:00:00 grep --color=auto
> rcu_sche
>
> You can use the chrt command to set the priority. For example, given
> that
> on my laptop, rcu_sched is PID 7:
>
> sudo chrt -f -p 1 7
>
> You can double-check as follows:
>
> $ chrt -p 7
> pid 7's current scheduling policy: SCHED_FIFO
> pid 7's current scheduling priority: 1
>
> Does that help?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>

Hi,
interesting ... I change priority as you suggest and will keep you in
touch
if the problem happens again because I cant reproduce it. Replay on your
next email, I don't have any
virtual servers / guest os on the server. It's server with only one
process - redis server
and in this time when error it's happened actually one of other servers
start loading data
into redis sever. Data is small 3-4 mil. keys every key contain around
150 symbols.
I have that problem on two servers, next server is database server with
postgresql
and that problem happened more often, usual once per day or for few
days.
I never play before with changing priority of processes. When I check
iLO log I saw logged error: power lost but server does not lost the
power actually,
it's just stop respond for 2-3 minutes and then continue normal
operation with
uptime more then 100 days.

Thanks for your suggestion.
Regards,
Mitko

>> [239940.067938] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU26: Marking
>> clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
>> [239940.067943] clocksource: 'hpet' wd_now:
>> ecb521ce wd_last: ca45912d mask: ffffffff
>> [239940.067946] clocksource: 'tsc' cs_now:
>> 2d12df5f88d08 cs_last: 29fffbe2d36d6 mask: ffffffffffffffff
>> [239940.068357] clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet
>> [240000.066457] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
>> [240000.066488] 2-...: (38 GPs behind) idle=f1a/0/0
>> softirq=2417028/2417028 fqs=0
>> [240000.066491] 3-...: (27 GPs behind) idle=0bc/0/0
>> softirq=3076046/3076047 fqs=0
>> [240000.066494] 4-...: (1006 GPs behind) idle=308/0/0
>> softirq=1474922/1474922 fqs=0
>> [240000.066497] 5-...: (8034 GPs behind) idle=7b4/0/0
>> softirq=69165/69166 fqs=0
>> [240000.066499] 6-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=716/0/0
>> softirq=16465/16465 fqs=0
>> [240000.066502] 7-...: (8034 GPs behind) idle=bd0/0/0
>> softirq=15923/15924 fqs=0
>> [240000.066505] 8-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=a62/0/0
>> softirq=93861/93861 fqs=0
>> [240000.066507] 9-...: (1258 GPs behind) idle=a8c/0/0
>> softirq=21608/21608 fqs=0
>> [240000.066510] 11-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=8e6/0/0
>> softirq=18844/18844 fqs=0
>> [240000.066512] 13-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=ab8/0/0
>> softirq=21278/21278 fqs=0
>> [240000.066515] 14-...: (4854 GPs behind) idle=578/0/0
>> softirq=25624/25626 fqs=0
>> [240000.066517] 15-...: (8034 GPs behind) idle=f5e/0/0
>> softirq=18114/18115 fqs=0
>> [240000.066520] 16-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=b66/0/0
>> softirq=19511/19511 fqs=0
>> [240000.066528] 17-...: (0 ticks this GP) idle=e18/0/0
>> softirq=16163/16163 fqs=0
>> [240000.066531] 18-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=a18/0/0
>> softirq=16424/16424 fqs=0
>> [240000.066533] 19-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=944/0/0
>> softirq=17920/17920 fqs=0
>> [240000.066549] 20-...: (20991 GPs behind) idle=750/0/0
>> softirq=17549/17552 fqs=0
>> [240000.066552] 21-...: (0 ticks this GP) idle=9e0/0/0
>> softirq=18937/18937 fqs=0
>> [240000.066555] 22-...: (14519 GPs behind) idle=95e/0/0
>> softirq=16122/16124 fqs=0
>> [240000.066557] 23-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=bbc/0/0
>> softirq=16316/16316 fqs=0
>> [240000.066560] 24-...: (0 ticks this GP) idle=c56/0/0
>> softirq=20070/20070 fqs=0
>> [240000.066563] 27-...: (8034 GPs behind) idle=bdc/0/0
>> softirq=18291/18292 fqs=0
>> [240000.066566] 28-...: (8034 GPs behind) idle=4f8/0/0
>> softirq=22313/22314 fqs=0
>> [240000.066568] 29-...: (3443 GPs behind) idle=22a/0/0
>> softirq=24975/24976 fqs=0
>> [240000.066571] 30-...: (1665 GPs behind) idle=940/0/0
>> softirq=89382/89382 fqs=0
>> [240000.066572] (detected by 10, t=60002 jiffies, g=4843721,
>> c=4843720, q=659)
>> [240000.066578] Task dump for CPU 2:
>> [240000.066581] swapper/2 R running task 0 0
>> 1 0x00200000
>> [240000.066588] 0000000000000083 ffffffffa5cecd79 ffff8aca3eea1e00
>> ffffffffa64cab40
>> [240000.066593] 0000000000000005 ffffffffa64cad38 ffffa96c80073eb0
>> ffffffffa5ba9d93
>> [240000.066597] ffff8aca3eea1e00 000000000e94fec6 ffff8aca38535940
>> 0000000000000002
>> [240000.066601] Call Trace:
>> [240000.066617] [<ffffffffa5cecd79>] ? intel_idle+0x109/0x110
>> [240000.066625] [<ffffffffa5ba9d93>] ?
>> cpuidle_enter_state+0x103/0x2b0
>> [240000.066629] [<ffffffffa5ba9f77>] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20
>> [240000.066638] [<ffffffffa50d5d73>] ? call_cpuidle+0x23/0x40
>> [240000.066641] [<ffffffffa50d5fd7>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x147/0x220
>> [240000.066647] [<ffffffffa503ecfd>] ? start_secondary+0x12d/0x140
>> [240000.066650] Task dump for CPU 3:
>> [240000.066651] swapper/3 R running task 0 0
>> 1 0x00200000
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mitko
>>