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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307051802070.32106@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:02:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Yet more softlockups.

On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>  > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [trinity-child1:14565]
>  > > perf samples too long (2519 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
>  > > INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 238147.002 msecs
>  > 
>  > So we see a softlockup of 23 seconds and the perf_event_nmi_handler
>  > claims it did run 23.8 seconds.
>  > 
>  > Are there more instances of NMI handler messages ?
> 
> [ 2552.006181] perf samples too long (2511 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
> [ 2552.008680] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 500392.002 msecs

Yuck. Spending 50 seconds in NMI context surely explains a softlockup :)
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