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From: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: PPro arch_cpu_idle: NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 1
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 21:40:36 +0200 (EET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1703022140200.24315@math.ut.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703021710130.3692@nanos>

> > > > > This is on my trusty IBM PC365, dual Pentium Pro. 4.10 worked fine, 
> > > > > 4.10.0-09686-g9e314890292c and 4.10.0-10770-g2d6be4abf514 exhibit a 
> > > > > problem. Ocassionally NMI watchdog kicks in and discovers one of the 
> > > > > CPUs in LOCKUP. The system keeps running fine. The first lockup was 
> > > > > different, all the others were from arch_cpu_idle. Sometime ecey couple 
> > > > > of seconds (after some activity), sometimes nothing for a long time 
> > > > > (idle, no SSH logins).
> > > > 
> > > > The only watchdog related patch which hit after 4.10 is:
> > > > 
> > > >  8dcde9def5a1 kernel/watchdog.c: do not hardcode CPU 0 as the initial thread
> > > > 
> > > > Can you try to revert that for a start? I'm not seeing why it should be the
> > > > culprit from a quick glance, but ...
> > > 
> > > Reverting this patch does not help.
> > 
> > I did not expect that, but excluding it was a valid shot in the
> > dark. Thanmks for trying.
> > 
> > To be honest, I have no idea what causes that at the moment, but I will
> > come back to you tomorrow after thinking it through (with brain awake) how
> > to debug this.
> 
> Went through the related changes which came in during the merge window. One
> which affects the per cpu timers is: 914122c389d0
> 
> Can you try to revert that one please?

Reverted, no effect.

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-01 15:28 PPro arch_cpu_idle: NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 1 Meelis Roos
2017-03-01 17:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-01 20:47   ` Meelis Roos
2017-03-01 22:06   ` Meelis Roos
2017-03-01 22:34     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-02 16:11       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-02 19:40         ` Meelis Roos [this message]
2017-03-03 10:56         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-03 10:58           ` Meelis Roos
2017-03-05 20:48           ` Meelis Roos
2017-03-05 23:19             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-03-06 11:42               ` Meelis Roos

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