Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:52:28 -0800 | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > The second time (or third, or fourth - it might not take immediately) > you get a lockup or similar. Bad things happen.
I've only tested it twice now, but the first time I got a weird lockup-like thing (things *kind* of worked, but I could imagine that one CPU was stuck with a lock held, because things eventually ground to a screeching halt.
The second time I got
INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 5} (t=84533 jiffies g=11971 c=11970 q=17)
and then
INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1 2 3 4 5 6 7} (detected by 0, t=291309 jiffies, g=12031, c=12030, q=57)
with backtraces that made no sense (because obviously no actual stall had taken place), and were the CPU's mostly being idle.
I could easily see it resulting in your softlockup scenario too.
Linus
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