linux-kernel - Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

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Date:	Sat, 20 Dec 2014 02:06:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Dâniel Fraga <fragabr@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > But at the very end this would be detected by the runtime check of the
> > hrtimer interrupt, which does not trigger. And it would trigger at
> > some point as ALL cpus including CPU0 in that trace dump make
> > progress.
> 
> I'll admit that at some point we should be hitting one of the WARN or BUG_ON,
> but it's possible to thread that needle and corrupt the timer list, without
> hitting a warning (CPU 1 in my example has to enqueue last).  Once the rbtree
> is hosed, it can go forever.  Probably not the bug we're looking for, but
> still suspect in general.

I surely have a close look at that, but in that case we get out of
that state later on and I doubt that we have 

     A) a corruption of the rbtree
     B) a self healing of the rbtree afterwards

I doubt it, but who knows.

Though even if A & B would happen we would still get the 'hrtimer
interrupt took a gazillion of seconds' warning because CPU0 definitely
leaves the timer interrupt at some point otherwise we would not see
backtraces from usb, userspace and idle later on.

Thanks,

	tglx




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