Hi, Booting 4.19.59-rt24 with debug options enabled (DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP) I noticed the following splat (edited for clarity): --->8--- Linux version 4.19.59-rt24 (...) (...) #2 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Aug 5 05:23:26 EDT 2019 Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-4.19.59-rt24 ... skew_tick=1 isolcpus=9-35 intel_pstate=disable nosoftlockup nohz=on nohz_full=9-35 rcu_nocbs=9-35 ... smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3f, stepping: 0x2) ... smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... x86: Booting SMP configuration: .... node #0, CPUs: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 .... node #1, CPUs: #9 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:967 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 0, name: swapper/9 1 lock held by swapper/9/0: #0: 00000000eb141bd9 ((pendingb_lock).lock){+.+.}, at: queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 irq event stamp: 0 hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffffadda7bf8>] copy_process.part.18+0x1928/0x7250 softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffffadda7c94>] copy_process.part.18+0x19c4/0x7250 softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] (null) Preemption disabled at: [<ffffffffadcbdaef>] start_secondary+0x11f/0x530 CPU: 9 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/9 Not tainted 4.19.59-rt24 #2 Hardware name: HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9, BIOS I36 10/17/2018 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x9a/0xf0 ___might_sleep.cold.57+0x6a/0x7c rt_spin_lock+0x75/0x90 ? queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 sched_cpu_starting+0x28c/0x370 ? sched_cpu_deactivate+0x2b0/0x2b0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1d0/0x1dc0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0xf0 notify_cpu_starting+0x117/0x190 start_secondary+0x2be/0x530 ? set_c+0x27c0/0x27c0 secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 .... node #0, CPUs: #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 .... node #1, CPUs: #27 #28 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:967 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 0, name: swapper/28 1 lock held by swapper/28/0: #0: 0000000004707c3e ((pendingb_lock).lock){+.+.}, at: queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 irq event stamp: 0 hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] (null) hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffffadda7bf8>] copy_process.part.18+0x1928/0x7250 softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffffadda7c94>] copy_process.part.18+0x19c4/0x0 softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] (null) Preemption disabled at: [<ffffffffadcbdaef>] start_secondary+0x11f/0x530 CPU: 28 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/28 Tainted: G W 4.19.59-rt24 #2 Hardware name: HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9, BIOS I36 10/17/2018 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x9a/0xf0 ___might_sleep.cold.57+0x6a/0x7c rt_spin_lock+0x75/0x90 ? queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 queue_delayed_work_on+0x103/0x580 sched_cpu_starting+0x28c/0x370 ? sched_cpu_deactivate+0x2b0/0x2b0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1d0/0x1dc0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0xf0 notify_cpu_starting+0x117/0x190 start_secondary+0x2be/0x530 ? set_cpu_sibling_map+0x27c0/0x27c0 secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #35 smp: Brought up 2 nodes, 36 CPUs smpboot: Max logical packages: 2 smpboot: Total of 36 processors activated (166451.61 BogoMIPS) --->8--- This only happens if isolcpus are configured at boot. AFAIU, RT is reworking workqueues and 5.x-rt shouldn't suffer from this. As a matter of fact, I could verify that backporting the workqueue rework all-in change from 5.0-rt [1] fixes this problem. I'm thus wondering if there is any plan on backporting the rework to 4.19-rt stable, and if that patch has dependencies, or if any alternative fix might be found for this problem. Thanks, Juri 1 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/commit/?h=v5.0.19-rt11&id=d15a862f24df983458533aebd6fa207ecdd1095a