linux-kernel - Re: system hung up when offlining CPUs

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Message-ID: <20170809124213.0d9518bb@why.wild-wind.fr.eu.org>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:42:13 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, axboe@...nel.dk, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        keith.busch@...el.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: system hung up when offlining CPUs

On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 15:25:35 -0400
YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> When offlining all CPUs except cpu0, system hung up with the following message.
> 
> [...] INFO: task kworker/u384:1:1234 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> [...]       Not tainted 4.12.0-rc6+ #19
> [...] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> [...] kworker/u384:1  D    0  1234      2 0x00000000
> [...] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-253:0)
> [...] Call Trace:
> [...]  __schedule+0x28a/0x880
> [...]  schedule+0x36/0x80
> [...]  schedule_timeout+0x249/0x300
> [...]  ? __schedule+0x292/0x880
> [...]  __down_common+0xfc/0x132
> [...]  ? _xfs_buf_find+0x2bb/0x510 [xfs]
> [...]  __down+0x1d/0x1f
> [...]  down+0x41/0x50
> [...]  xfs_buf_lock+0x3c/0xf0 [xfs]
> [...]  _xfs_buf_find+0x2bb/0x510 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_buf_get_map+0x2a/0x280 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_buf_read_map+0x2d/0x180 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xf5/0x310 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_btree_read_buf_block.constprop.35+0x78/0xc0 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_btree_lookup_get_block+0x88/0x160 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_btree_lookup+0xd0/0x3b0 [xfs]
> [...]  ? xfs_allocbt_init_cursor+0x41/0xe0 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_near+0xaf/0xaa0 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_alloc_ag_vextent+0x13c/0x150 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_alloc_vextent+0x425/0x590 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x448/0x770 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_bmap_alloc+0xe/0x10 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_bmapi_write+0x61d/0xc10 [xfs]
> [...]  ? kmem_zone_alloc+0x96/0x100 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x199/0x3a0 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_map_blocks+0x1e8/0x260 [xfs]
> [...]  xfs_do_writepage+0x1ca/0x680 [xfs]
> [...]  write_cache_pages+0x26f/0x510
> [...]  ? xfs_vm_set_page_dirty+0x1d0/0x1d0 [xfs]
> [...]  ? blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x305/0x410
> [...]  ? deadline_remove_request+0x7d/0xc0
> [...]  xfs_vm_writepages+0xb6/0xd0 [xfs]
> [...]  do_writepages+0x1c/0x70
> [...]  __writeback_single_inode+0x45/0x320
> [...]  writeback_sb_inodes+0x280/0x570
> [...]  __writeback_inodes_wb+0x8c/0xc0
> [...]  wb_writeback+0x276/0x310
> [...]  ? get_nr_dirty_inodes+0x4d/0x80
> [...]  wb_workfn+0x2d4/0x3b0
> [...]  process_one_work+0x149/0x360
> [...]  worker_thread+0x4d/0x3c0
> [...]  kthread+0x109/0x140
> [...]  ? rescuer_thread+0x380/0x380
> [...]  ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
> [...]  ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
> 
> 
> I bisected upstream kernel. And I found that the following commit lead
> the issue.
> 
> commit c5cb83bb337c25caae995d992d1cdf9b317f83de
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Date:   Tue Jun 20 01:37:51 2017 +0200
> 
>     genirq/cpuhotplug: Handle managed IRQs on CPU hotplug

Can you please post your /proc/interrupts and details of which
interrupt you think goes wrong? This backtrace is not telling us much
in terms of where to start looking...

Thanks,

	M.
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