[PATCH v5 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

On 02/18/2013 04:24 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> Lockup observed while running this patchset, with CPU_IDLE and INTEL_IDLE turned
>> on in the .config:
>>
>>  smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 11
>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper/11 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc7+stpmch13-1 #8
>> Call Trace:
>>  [<ffffffff812aba1e>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7e/0x150
>>  [<ffffffff815a64c1>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x61/0x70
>>  [<ffffffff810c0758>] ? clockevents_notify+0x28/0x150
>>  [<ffffffff815a6d37>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x77/0x80
>>  [<ffffffff810c0758>] clockevents_notify+0x28/0x150
>>  [<ffffffff8130459f>] intel_idle+0xaf/0xe0
>>  [<ffffffff81472ee0>] ? disable_cpuidle+0x20/0x20
>>  [<ffffffff81472ef9>] cpuidle_enter+0x19/0x20
>>  [<ffffffff814734c1>] cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x41/0xa0
>>  [<ffffffff81473530>] cpuidle_enter_tk+0x10/0x20
>>  [<ffffffff81472f17>] cpuidle_enter_state+0x17/0x50
>>  [<ffffffff81473899>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xd9/0x290
>>  [<ffffffff810203d5>] cpu_idle+0xe5/0x140
>>  [<ffffffff8159c603>] start_secondary+0xdd/0xdf
> 
>> BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#2, migration/2/19
>>  lock: clockevents_lock+0x0/0x40, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/8/0, .owner_cpu: 8
> 
> Unfortunately there is no back trace for cpu8.

Yes :-(

I had run this several times hoping to get a backtrace on the lock-holder,
expecting trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() to get it right at least once. But I
hadn't succeeded even once.

> That's probably caused
> by the watchdog -> panic setting.
> 

Oh, ok..

> So we have no idea why cpu2 and 11 get stuck on the clockevents_lock
> and without that information it's impossible to decode.
> 

But thankfully, the issue seems to have been resolved by the diff I posted
in my previous mail, along with the fixes related to memory barriers.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat