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From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 06:41:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560CB98A.10107@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2015.09.30.22.37.34@googlemail.com>

On 01. okt. 2015 00:37, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:59:43 +0200, Olivier Bonvalet wrote:
>
>> for information, I've just upgraded 6 servers from Linux 4.1.8 to Linux
>> 4.1.9, and have some random soft lockup. If this can help :
>
> Congratulations! You're not the first one to get hit by this, but
> you are probably the first one to get a meaningful stacktrace! \o/
>
>> [  204.478380] Call Trace:
>> [  204.478381]  <IRQ>
>> [  204.478385]  [<ffffffff81076121>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x43/0x4d
>> [  204.478386]  [<ffffffff810760de>] ? del_timer+0x4d/0x4d
>> [  204.478388]  [<ffffffff8107614b>] ? del_timer_sync+0x20/0x3d
>
> Can you try to revert
>
>     [PATCH 4.1 157/159] inet: fix races with reqsk timers
>
> and see how that works for you? I'll do the same on my end. So far the
> only thing I ever could gleam was an rcu stall after cpuidle_enter(),
> but never anything regarding the timer - though it was definitely
> related to NIC activity after idle.

I'm running with this patch reverted now as well. 2 hours no issues so 
far, but I can't conclude anything yet as I've seen it take up to 6+ 
hours to explode here. As a result the bisect was going veeery slowly.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30 21:59 Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9 Olivier Bonvalet
2015-09-30 22:37 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2015-10-01  4:41   ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2015-10-01 10:51     ` Holger Hoffstätte
     [not found] ` <560D1223.3070606@googlemail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CANn89i+B5T4Rhs8HnrC0+f+GhLvBFfpr4BVDvhkVOveSfy9B8Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-01 11:43     ` Holger Hoffstätte
2015-10-01 11:52       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-02  6:52         ` Andre Tomt
2015-10-02  7:17           ` Holger Hoffstätte
2015-10-02 19:25             ` Wolfgang Walter
2015-10-03 19:14             ` Thomas D.
2015-10-17 23:41               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-02 20:04         ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-10-02 20:59           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-02 21:04             ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-10-02 21:32               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-08 16:56         ` Christoph Biedl
2015-10-08 19:27           ` Holger Hoffstätte

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