Re: "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [kswapd0:184]"

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 00:33:26 EST


> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to report a bug upstream that is affecting the latest
> versions of at least both Fedora and Ubuntu. CPUs somehow lock up
> under load, producing errors of the form "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0
> stuck for 61s! [kswapd0:184]"
>
> The Fedora Bug report is here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649694 -- however you can
> find lots of references to the error message on other distributions
> (including Ubuntu) by googling "bug soft lockup cpu stuck".
>
> Lockups seem to happen on server-class hardware under heavy loads when
> the machine is swapping. This can lead to the entire machine locking
> up in some reported cases (although so far only individual CPUs seem
> to have locked up in my case, not the entire machine). The point at
> which the CPU hangs varies -- see the dmesg output I attached to the
> Fedora bug report above.
>
> My machine is a 12-way Xeon X5680 system with ext3, AFS and XFS
> filesystems (XFS is running on hardware RAID). Please let me know if
> you need other info that would be helpful to diagnosing the problem.

AFAIK, This isssue was already fixed by Mel.

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/10/27/4637977



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