Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17

From	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17
Date	2016-03-18 22:10 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:56:38PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:13:11PM +1100, Ross Green wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Ross Green <rgkernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Paul E. McKenney
> > > <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> [ . . . ]
> 
> > >> Still working on getting decent traces...
> 
> And I might have succeeded, see below.
> 
> > >>
> > >>                                                         Thanx, Paul
> > >>
> > >
> > > G'day all,
> > >
> > > Here is another dmesg output for 4.5-rc5 showing another rcu_preempt stall.
> > > This one appeared after only a day of running. CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMING is
> > > turned on, but can't see any output that shows from this.
> > >
> > > Again testing as before,
> > >
> > > Boot, run a series of small benchmarks, then just let the system be
> > > and idle away.
> > >
> > > I notice in the stack trace there is mention of hrtimer_run_queues and
> > > hrtimer_interrupt.
> > >
> > > Anyway, leave this for a few more eyes to look at.
> > >
> > > Open to any other suggestions of things to test.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Ross Green
> > 
> > 
> > G'day Paul,
> > 
> > I left the pandaboard running and captured another stall.
> > 
> > the attachment is the dmesg output.
> > 
> > Again there is no apparent output from any CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMING so I
> > assume there is nothing happening there.
> 
> I agree, looks like this is not due to time skew.
> 
> > I just saw the updates for 4.6 RCU code.
> > Is the patch in [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] valid here?
> 
> I doubt that it will help, but you never know.
> 
> > do you want me try the new patch set with this configuration?
> 
> Even better would be to try Daniel Wagner's swait patchset.  I have
> attached them in UNIX mbox format, or you can get them from the
> -tip tree.
> 
> And I -finally- got some tracing that -might- be useful.  The dmesg, all
> 67MB of it, is here:
> 
> 	http://www.rdrop.com/~paulmck/submission/console.2016.02.23a.log
> 
> This failure mode is less likely to happen, and looks a bit different
> than the ones that I was seeing before enabling tracing.  Then, an
> additional wakeup would actually wake the task up.  In contrast, with
> tracing enabled, the RCU grace-period kthread goes into "teenager mode",
> refusing to wake up despite repeated attempts.  However, this might
> be a side-effect of the ftrace dump.
> 
> On line 525,132, we see that the rcu_preempt grace-period kthread has
> been starved for 1,188,154 jiffies, or about 20 minutes.  This seems
> unlikely...  The kthread is waiting for no more than a three-jiffy
> timeout ("RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3)") and is in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
> ("0x1").

We're seeing a similar stall (~60 seconds) on an x86 development system
here.  Any luck tracking down the cause of this?  If not, any
suggestions for traces that might be helpful?

- Josh Triplett

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Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-03-18 22:10 +0100
  Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-19 01:00 +0100
    Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-21 17:30 +0100
      Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-21 18:30 +0100
        Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-22 18:50 +0100
          RE: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com> - 2016-03-22 22:10 +0100
            Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-22 22:20 +0100
              RE: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com> - 2016-03-23 18:20 +0100
                RE: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com> - 2016-03-23 19:30 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-23 21:00 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-23 19:30 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-25 22:50 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-26 13:30 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-26 16:30 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-26 19:50 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-26 23:30 +0100
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 03:40 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-27 15:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 22:10 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-27 22:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 23:10 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-28 08:30 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-28 15:10 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-29 02:30 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-29 15:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-30 17:00 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-31 17:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-29 02:30 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-28 03:50 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-28 04:30 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-28 08:20 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-28 16:00 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-28 16:20 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-27 23:00 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 23:10 +0200
      Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-27 23:00 +0200
        Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-27 23:10 +0200
          Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-28 08:40 +0200
            Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-28 15:30 +0200
              Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-28 17:10 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-28 18:10 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-03-28 18:20 +0200
                Re: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU from 4.5-rc3, since 3.17 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-28 18:40 +0200

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