Re: [linux-next] cpus stalls detected few hours after booting next kernel

From: Abdul Haleem
Date: Tue Jul 25 2017 - 01:20:25 EST


On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:28 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:52:18 +0530
> Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 00:45 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:23:05 +1000
> > > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:36:14 +1000
> > > > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I don't *think* the replay-wakeup-interrupt patch is directly involved, but
> > > > > it's likely to be one of the idle patches.
> > >
> > > Okay this turned out to be misconfigured sleep states I added for the
> > > simulator, sorry for the false alarm.
> > >
> > > > Although you have this in the backtrace. I wonder if that's a stuck
> > > > lock in rcu_process_callbacks?
> > >
> > > So this spinlock becomes top of the list of suspects. Can you try
> > > enabling lockdep and try to reproduce it?
> >
> > Yes, recreated again with CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y & CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y set.
> > I do not see any difference in trace messages with and without LOCKDEP
> > enabled.
> >
> > Please find the attached log file.
>
> Can you get an rcu_invoke_callback event trace that Paul suggested?

Yes, I have collected the perf report.
>
> Does this bug show up with just the powerpc next branch?

Now started seeing the call trace on mainline too (4.13.0-rc2)

>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>


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Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre