Ahhh, ok. Thanks. That makes sense, then.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:01 AM Joseph Salisbury
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The Xenial bug task is for the base Xenial kernel version 4.4.  Any
> commits/fixes applied to Bionic flow down into Xenial HWE because Bionic
> is 4.15 based, which is the source for Xenial HWE.
>
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> Title:
>   CPU Soft Lockups when stress-ng stack stressor runs with M.2 NVMe as
>   root FS
>
> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in linux source package in Xenial:
>   Invalid
> Status in linux source package in Bionic:
>   Triaged
> Status in linux source package in Cosmic:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   This was reported by a hardware partner.  The system set up is a
>   server with 512GB RAM and an M.2 NVMe drive as the root
>   filesystem/boot device.
>
>   Per the customer, when running the certification Memory Stress test
>   (utilizing several stress-ng stressors run in sequence) the system
>   freezes with CPU Soft Lockup errors appearing on console whe the
>   "stack" stressor is run.
>
>   Tester has tried with 2.5” SATA (1TB), 2.5” NVMe (800GB), and M.2 NVMe
>   (1.9TB).
>
>   So far, this only seems to affect the 4.15 kernel.  The tester has
>   tried using the 2.5" SATA SSD as the RootFS/Boot device and the tests
>   pass on all attempts.  It is ONLY when using the M.2 NVMe as the root
>   / boot device that the tests cause a lockup.  The tester is re-trying
>   now with the 2.5" NVMe device to see if this only occurs with the M.2
>   NVMe.
>
>   The tester has tried this on the following while using the M.2 NVMe as the 
> rootFS/Boot device:
>   Test run #1 – 16.04.5 at kernel 4.15; Result: Failed stress-ng memory on 
> stack stressor
>   Test run #2 – 18.04.1 at kernel 4.15; Result: Failed stress-ng memory on 
> stack stressor
>   Test run #3 – 16.04.5 at kernel 4.4; Result: Passed stress-ng memory test
>
>   The stress-ng command invoked at the time the soft lockups occur is
>   this:
>
>   'stress-ng -k --aggressive --verify --timeout 300 --stack 0'
>
>   This can be reproduced by running the memory_stress_ng test script
>   from the cert suite:
>
>   sudo /usr/lib/plainbox-provider-certification-
>   server/bin/memory_stress_ng
>
>   It may be more easily reproducible running the stack stressor alone,
>   or the whole memory stress script without dealing with Checkbox.
>
>   UPDATE: The tester also confirms that the 2.5" NVMe drives also fail
>   with the 4.15 kernel and pass with the 4.4 kernel.  The SSD works on
>   all kernels.
>
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> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: blocks-hwcert-server kernel-da-key kernel-fixed-upstream
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