Re: Observing RCU stalls in kernel 5.4/5.10/5.15/6.1 stable trees

[Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>]

On 2023-06-14 09:45, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:

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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
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>> On 2023-06-14 05:20, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
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>>> On 2023-06-14 11:14:49 [+0200], gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>>>> Oops, missed this.
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>>>> Yes, there might be, can you do 'git bisect' and track down the patch
>>>> that fixed this?
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>>> There was a report of a lockup during boot in VMs yesterday. If I
>>> remember correctly this still exists and might be related to this
>>> report. I'm going to have a look.
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>> Thanks, Sebastian. Do you have a link for the discussion?
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> May be this, talking about the same commit as cause as this thread:
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Align tick_sched_timer() with the HZ
> tick. -- regression report
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5a56290d-806e-b9a5-f37c-f21958b5a8c0@grsecurity.net/

Thank you, Sven.

Sebastian, except for the detailed analysis which we haven't done yet, the
issue described by Mathias matches 100% what we're observing. Also, we do
observe this on bare-metal instances which could mean that the initial
reports are against VMs because those are rebooted more often (our quick
reproducer boots hundreds of instances in AWS and only 1 or 2 reproduces this).

IMHO, I'd suggest we revert this for now from Linus tree and stable trees.
We can help testing for the fix maybe for the next merge window.

- Luiz

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> May not have been the best idea to respond with such big analysis to a 3
> months old dead thread, gets lost extremely easy.
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> c'ya
> sven-haegar
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