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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.18 000/123] 4.18.6-stable review
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On 09/05/2018 10:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:34 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/05/2018 02:01 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> ---
>>>> [ 9990.754641] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 22s! [kworker/5:1:155]
>>>> [ 9990.762601] RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many+0x208/0x270
>>>> [ 9990.762601] Code: e8 0d d1 77 00 3b 05 cb f0 24 01 0f 83 86 fe ff ff 48 63 d0 49 8b 0c 24 48 03 0c d5 00 f7 11 a7 8b 51 18 83 e2 01 74 0a f3 90 <8b> 51 18 83 e2 01 75 f6 eb c7 0f b6 4d d0 4c 89 f2 4c 89 ee 44 89
>
> It's stuck in this loop:
>
> loop:
> pause
> mov 0x18(%rcx),%edx
> and $0x1,%edx
> jne loop
>
> which is csd_lock_wait().
>
> Judging by the offset in smp_call_function_many(), it's the final one
> (there's two: the other one is part of "csd_lock()"). But that's just
> a guess.
>
> Anyway, it means that we're waiting for another CPU to finish
> processing an IPI - either a previous one we sent asynchronously (if
> it's the earlier csd_lock() case) or the TLB IPI we just sent and
> we're waiting for completion of.
>
>> Not tested, but I see it in v4.17.19 and in v4.18.6-rc2. Turns out it is
>> related to heavy load, not to suspend/resume. At this point I suspect that
>> it may be an AMD/Ryzen specific problem - it looks like it disappears if I
>> add "kernel.randomize_va_space = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf. No idea if it is a
>> CPU bug or some AMD specific code problem. I'll try to analyze it further.
>
> Ouch. Some IPI sending/receiving problem would be very very painful to
> debug if it's hw related.
>

Turns out this is a well known problem with Ryzen CPUs:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683

Guenter

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