Colin, it is your call whether the spurious soft lockup warnings should
be fixed or not. Personally, I am fine knowing they are harmless.
Thanks a lot!
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Marking as Won't Fix as the error messages are soft lock up messages
are coming from a misbehaving user space app and the watchdog is
detecting this as a *potential* soft lockup issue.
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@Etienne, any change on this bug? Should we mark is ask Won't Fix now?
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The bug have been marked Incomplete, but I am not sure what needs to be
provided. A better test case?
AFAIC, I am entirely satisfied with Colin's explanation. I do think the
spurious soft lockup message should be fixed, but it is not mine to
decide.
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Etienne,
In trying to reproduce an OOM and loading issue using the stress test
application,
one needs to consider how the OOM occurs and if can be fixed or helped by
tweaking the virtual memory settings.
Some suggested tweaks to try are as follows:
as root:
echo 2
Let's look at these error messages. The following:
[ 554.116802] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s! [stress:4618]
[ 557.606750] CPU 1:
[ 557.607150] Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ipv6 lp
loop af_packet serio_raw intel_agp container evdev button shpchp parport_pc
One other point to make is that the message BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1
stuck for 11s! [stress:4618] is rather alarmist - it makes one think the
CPU is not being used and is stuck. In fact, if one uses the top command
one can see that the CPU is 100% busy running the stress process and not
stuck at
Once we can reproduce this, I will see if upstream commit
126e01bf92dfc5f0ba91e88be02c473e1506d7d9 will help fix this.
Quoting the patch:
softlockup: fix NOHZ wakeup
David Miller reported:
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It appears that this kind of soft lockup kernel message easily
reproduced with the following code on a 2.6.24-xxx hardy server kernel
inside vmware server:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
#include sched.h
void setsched(void)
{
struct sched_param mysched;
Incidentally, how long does it take before the problem occurs? Orders of
minutes, hours, days?
Colin
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Generally within a matter of minutes, but sometime it would take longer.
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin King (colin-king)
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I left the stress test running again on six VM overnight, and only one
got the soft lockup. Attached is the dmesg output. I could probably
provide more of these by re-running the stress test on a bunch of
machine, but I think it might be redundant.
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Notice that I have added the kernel parameter clocksource=acpi_pm, as
discussed in bug #261937 and at:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1007020
However, dmesg on both VM that crashed still show an error such as:
Clocksource tsc
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