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

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:49:13 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 02:34:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:42:14 -0700
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:22:00PM -0700, David Miller wrote:  
> >   
> > > > Indeed, that really wouldn't explain how we end up with a RCU stall
> > > > dump listing almost all of the cpus as having missed a grace period.    
> > > 
> > > I have seen stranger things, but admittedly not often.  
> > 
> > So the backtraces show the RCU gp thread in schedule_timeout.
> > 
> > Are you sure that it's timeout has expired and it's not being scheduled,
> > or could it be a bad (large) timeout (looks unlikely) or that it's being
> > scheduled but not correctly noting gps on other CPUs?
> > 
> > It's not in R state, so if it's not being scheduled at all, then it's
> > because the timer has not fired:  
> 
> Good point, Nick!
> 
> Jonathan, could you please reproduce collecting timer event tracing?
I'm a little new to tracing (only started playing with it last week)
so fingers crossed I've set it up right.  No splats yet.  Was getting
splats on reading out the trace when running with the RCU stall timer
set to 4 so have increased that back to the default and am rerunning.

This may take a while.  Correct me if I've gotten this wrong to save time

echo "timer:*" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event

when it dumps, just send you the relevant part of what is in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace?

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> > [ 1984.628602] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 5663 jiffies! g1566 c1565 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x1
> > [ 1984.638153] rcu_preempt     S    0     9      2 0x00000000
> > [ 1984.643626] Call trace:
> > [ 1984.646059] [<ffff000008084fb0>] __switch_to+0x90/0xa8
> > [ 1984.651189] [<ffff000008962274>] __schedule+0x19c/0x5d8
> > [ 1984.656400] [<ffff0000089626e8>] schedule+0x38/0xa0
> > [ 1984.661266] [<ffff000008965844>] schedule_timeout+0x124/0x218
> > [ 1984.667002] [<ffff000008121424>] rcu_gp_kthread+0x4fc/0x748
> > [ 1984.672564] [<ffff0000080df0b4>] kthread+0xfc/0x128
> > [ 1984.677429] [<ffff000008082ec0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50
> >   
>