RCU lockup issues when CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=n - any one else seeing this?

[David Miller]

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:55:45 -0700

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 02:10:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> Just to report, turning softlockup back on fixes things for me on
>> sparc64 too.
> 
> Very good!
> 
>> The thing about softlockup is it runs an hrtimer, which seems to run
>> about every 4 seconds.
> 
> I could see where that could shake things loose, but I am surprised that
> it would be needed.  I ran a short run with CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
> with no trouble, but I will be running a longer test later on.
> 
>> So I wonder if this is a NO_HZ problem.
> 
> Might be.  My tests run with NO_HZ_FULL=n and NO_HZ_IDLE=y.  What are
> you running?  (Again, my symptoms are slightly different, so I might
> be seeing a different bug.)

I run with NO_HZ_FULL=n and NO_HZ_IDLE=y, just like you.

To clarify, the symptoms show up with SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR disabled.