linux-kernel - Re: smp_call_function

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:02:30 -0300
From:	Rafael David Tinoco <inaddy@...ntu.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano@...onical.com>,
	Christopher Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: smp_call_function_single lockups

>
> [11396.096002] Hardware name: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>
> But its a virtual machine right? Its not running bare metal, its running
> a !virt kernel on a virt machine, so maybe some of the virt muck is
> borked?
>
> A very subtly broken APIC emulation would be heaps of 'fun'.

Indeed, I'll dig hypervisor changes... Anyway, this initial stack
trace was first seen during the "frequent lockups in 3.18rc4"
discussion:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/14/656

RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff9c11e98a>]  [<ffffffff9c11e98a>]
generic_exec_single+0xea/0x1d0

At that time seen by Dave Jones, and running bare metal (if i remember
correctly).

-- 
Rafael Tinoco
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