On 13 April 2018 at 22:38, Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On 2018-04-12 13:15:19 +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: >> Hi Vincent, >> >> Thanks for your feedback. >> >> On 2018-04-12 12:33:27 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> > Hi Niklas, >> > >> > On 12 April 2018 at 11:18, Niklas Söderlund >> > <niklas.soderlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Hi Vincent, >> > > >> > > I have observed issues running on linus/master from a few days back [1]. >> > > I'm running on a Renesas Koelsch board (arm32) and I can trigger a issue >> > > by X forwarding the v4l2 test application qv4l2 over ssh and moving the >> > > courser around in the GUI (best test case description award...). I'm >> > > sorry about the really bad way I trigger this but I can't do it in any >> > > other way, I'm happy to try other methods if you got some ideas. The >> > > symptom of the issue is a complete hang of the system for more then 30 >> > > seconds and then this information is printed in the console: >> > >> > Heiner (edded cc) also reported similar problem with his platform: a >> > dual core celeron >> > >> > Do you confirm that your platform is a dual cortex-A15 ? At least that >> > what I have seen on web >> > This would confirm that dual system is a key point. >> >> I can confirm that my platform is a dual core. > > I tested another dual core system today Renesas M3-W ARM64 system and I > can observe the same lockups-on that system if it helps you understand > the problem. It seems to be much harder to trigger the issue on this > system for some reason. Hitting return in a ssh session don't seem to > produce the lockup while starting a GUI using X forwarding over ssh it's > possible. Thanks for the test. That's confirm, it's only happen on dual core > > [ 392.306441] INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: > [ 392.312201] (detected by 0, t=19366 jiffies, g=7177, c=7176, q=35) > [ 392.318555] All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 19368 > (4294990375-4294971007), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0 > [ 392.330758] swapper/0 R running task 0 0 0 > 0x00000022 > [ 392.337883] Call trace: > [ 392.340365] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8 > [ 392.344065] show_stack+0x14/0x20 > [ 392.347416] sched_show_task+0x224/0x2e8 > [ 392.351377] rcu_check_callbacks+0x8ac/0x8b0 > [ 392.355686] update_process_times+0x2c/0x58 > [ 392.359908] tick_sched_handle.isra.5+0x30/0x50 > [ 392.364479] tick_sched_timer+0x40/0x90 > [ 392.368351] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xfc/0x208 > [ 392.372659] hrtimer_interrupt+0xd4/0x258 > [ 392.376710] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x28/0x48 > [ 392.381194] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x80/0x138 > [ 392.385767] generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x40 > [ 392.389813] __handle_domain_irq+0x5c/0xb8 > [ 392.393946] gic_handle_irq+0x58/0xa8 > [ 392.397640] el1_irq+0xb4/0x130 > [ 392.400810] arch_cpu_idle+0x14/0x20 > [ 392.404422] default_idle_call+0x1c/0x38 > [ 392.408381] do_idle+0x17c/0x1f8 > [ 392.411640] cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x28 > [ 392.415598] rest_init+0x24c/0x260 > [ 392.419037] start_kernel+0x3e8/0x414 > > I was running the same tests on another ARM64 platform earlier using the > same build which have more then two cores and there I could not observe > this issue. > > -- > Regards, > Niklas Söderlund