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    SubjectRe: [3.5.4] rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 1} (t=54862991 jiffies)
    On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 07:04:19PM +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote:
    > On Tuesday 25 of September 2012 09:44:54 Greg KH wrote:
    > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:31:36PM +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote:
    > > > On Monday 24 of September 2012 10:36:33 Greg KH wrote:
    > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote:
    > > > > > Hi,
    > > > > >
    > > > > > with the new stable line i'm observing strange locks on my old amd-phenom-II mini-server.
    > > > > > here's a dmesg:
    > > > >
    > > > > Did this show up in 3.5.3? If not, can you run 'git bisect' to find the
    > > > > problem patch?
    > > >
    > > > heh, the old good kernel put some light on this issue.
    > > >
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.301639] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -474690884 ns)
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325477] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325484] WARNING: at /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD/kernel-2.6.37.6/linux-2.6.37/net/sched/sch_generic.c:258 dev_watchdog+0x25d/0x270()
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325486] Hardware name: GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325487] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
    > > > (...)
    > > > Sep 25 08:50:25 nexus kernel: [60330.851093] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm
    > > >
    > > > afaics, this amd-phenom cpu does the cpu frequency scaling and causes plain 'tsc' timer
    > > > instability which leads to network card watchdog timeout (i can login via local console
    > > > while any network traffic is dead). on the recent 3.5.x kernel the 'clocksource unstable'
    > > > message appears *after* 'task blocked' flood and there's no clear info about watchog timeout.
    > > > currently i'm testing hpet clocksource becasue better tsc modes (constant_tsc, nonstop_tsc)
    > > > aren't present in /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource while
    > > > cpu supports them.
    > >
    > > I'm sorry, I don't understand, that's a 2.6.37 kernel you are comparing
    > > this to. Where did this problem show up? In 3.5.4 where 3.5.3 was
    > > fine?
    >
    > 'cpu-stall' from topic has appeared in 3.5.2 (after upgrade from 3.4.10).

    So, can you run 'git bisect' from 3.4.10 and 3.5.2 to find the commit
    causing the problem?

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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