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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] NMI received for unknown reason 3c on CPU 0, strange powersaving mode?
On 04/03/2012 01:20 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Srivatsa S. Bhat:
>> On 03/30/2012 04:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Since some time I am seeing things like
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
>>>
>>> kernel:[49074.294260] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3c on
>>> CPU 0.
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
>>>
>>> kernel:[49074.294263] Do you have a strange power saving mode
>>> enabled?
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Mar 30 00:29:30 ...
>>>
>>> kernel:[49074.294264] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>
>>> on resume after in-kernel hibernation.
>>
>> Do you see this after suspend-to-ram too?
>>
>>> I do not see any trace of it in syslog, kern.log or dmesg.
>>>
>>> From the timestemp it seems that these messages are issued shortly
>>> before I send the laptop to hibernation last night.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am using a ThinkPad T520 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @
>>> 2.50GHz and Sandybridge graphics.
>>>
>>> I am not exactly sure since when it happens, cause I basically
>>> ignored it for quite some time. Might be some 3.2 kernel where it
>>> started, maybe even the first 3.2 kernel I had. Currently I am
>>> using:
>>>
>>> martin@merkaba:~> cat /proc/version
>>> Linux version 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (Debian 3.3-1~experimental.1)
>>> (debian- kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian
>>> 4.6.3-1) ) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 18:02:10 UTC 2012
>>>
>>> Since I am quite sure I didn´t see this with the first kernel I used
>>> on this machine, which was a 2.6.39 if I remember correctly, I
>>> consider this to be a regression for now.
>>>
>>>
>>> I did not see any other strange effects, only this message.
>>>
>>>
>>> When searching for it I see quite some references¹. But what I looked
>>> at seemed to either quite old or different in that the machine was
>>> frozen then.
>>
>> There was once such a bug report and commit 144060fee (perf: Add PM
>> notifiers to fix CPU hotplug races) tried to fix it, however it didn't
>> work out IIRC.
>>
>> Can you please try out the pm-test framework and let us know in which
>> phase this message is encountered?
>> Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
>>
>> 1. Recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PM_DEBUG=y
>> 2. # cat /sys/power/pm_test
>> 3. # echo <value> > /sys/power/pm_test
>> Use the values from the list given in step 2.
>> From freezer to core, it is increasing depth of suspend phase.
>> 4. # echo mem > /sys/power/state (for suspend-to-ram)
>> or echo disk > /sys/power/state (for suspend-to-disk)
>>
>> It would be great if you could tell which of the phases (freezer to
>> core) fails.
>
> Here I have the one from this morning. This time as resume time:
>
> martin@merkaba:~>
> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr 3 09:10:15 ...
> kernel:[ 3755.145282] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3c on CPU 0.
>
> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr 3 09:10:15 ...
> kernel:[ 3755.145285] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
>
> Message from syslogd@merkaba at Apr 3 09:10:15 ...
> kernel:[ 3755.145286] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>
>
> And here are the tests - short summary I was not able to reproduce the
> issue - nothing means that there was no furch NMI message on the Konsole
> window where it usually appears:
>
> merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test
> [none] core processors platform devices freezer
> merkaba:~> echo "core" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "processors" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test
> none core [processors] platform devices freezer
> merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "platform" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "devices" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "freezer" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
> merkaba:~> echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> merkaba:~> echo nothing
> nothing
>
>
> Now trying a regular hibernation:
>
> merkaba:~> echo "none" > /sys/power/pm_test
> merkaba:~> cat /sys/power/pm_test
> [none] core processors platform devices freezer
>
>
> Nothing.
>
>
> Now trying a regular hibernation with some minutes downtime and
> unplugging the power from the laptop.
>
>
> Nothing as well.
>
>
> Now I am puzzled.
>
>
> Maybe its the switch from minidock to no dock and vice versa?
>


Oh.. so you couldn't reproduce the problem..
Can you try with the original setup (minidock?) with which you found the
issue during hibernation and see what pm_test has to say in that case?

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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