On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 at 15:53, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can systematically reproduce the following soft lockup w/ the latest > 5.15-rc4 kernel (and all the 5.14, 5.13 and 5.12 kernels that I've > tested so far). > > I've found this issue by running systemd autopkgtest (I'm using the > latest systemd in Ubuntu - 248.3-1ubuntu7 - but it should happen with > any recent version of systemd). > > I'm running this test inside a local KVM instance and apparently systemd > is starting up its own KVM instances to run its tests, so the context is > a nested KVM scenario (even if I don't think the nested KVM part really > matters). > > Here's the oops: > > [ 36.466565] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [udevadm:333] > [ 36.466565] Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic zstd_compress raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear psmouse floppy > [ 36.466565] CPU: 0 PID: 333 Comm: udevadm Not tainted 5.15-rc4 > [ 36.466565] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 [...] > > If I disable CONFIG_KFENCE the soft lockup doesn't happen and systemd > autotest completes just fine. > > We've decided to disable KFENCE in the latest Ubuntu Impish kernel > (5.13) for now, because of this issue, but I'm still investigating > trying to better understand the problem. > > Any hint / suggestion? Can you confirm this is not a QEMU TCG instance? There's been a known issue with it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1920934 One thing that I've been wondering is, if we can make CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS=n the default, because the static keys approach is becoming more trouble than it's worth. It requires us to re-benchmark the defaults. If you're thinking of turning KFENCE on by default (i.e. CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL non-zero), you could make this decision for Ubuntu with whatever sample interval you choose. We've found that for large deployments 500ms or above is more than adequate. Thanks, -- Marco
