On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 06:35:27PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running latest -next, I've > stumbled on the following spew: > > [ 2536.440007] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [trinity-child86:12368] > [ 2536.440007] Call Trace: > [ 2536.440007] <IRQ> > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff8113d180>] run_timer_softirq+0x2d0/0x330 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff8113b400>] ? lock_timer_base+0x70/0x70 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff81132b21>] __do_softirq+0x261/0x4d0 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff81132ed6>] irq_exit+0x86/0x120 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff841a43ea>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4a/0x60 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff841a2d32>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x80 > [ 2536.440007] <EOI> > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff84198ef7>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff812355e5>] ? user_enter+0x135/0x150 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff81077d6d>] syscall_trace_leave+0x12d/0x160 > [ 2536.440007] [<ffffffff841a2337>] int_check_syscall_exit_work+0x34/0x3d > [ 2536.440007] Code: 01 fd 48 89 df e8 45 5b 8f fd e8 b0 f1 00 fd 48 83 3d 30 e6 8a 01 00 75 0e 0f > 0b 0f 1f 40 00 eb fe 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 fb 66 66 90 <66> 66 90 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 17 4f 00 00 65 48 8b > 04 25 88 d9 00 > > While going through the NMI dump, I noticed that it's very incomplete, and full of: > > [ 2536.500130] INFO: NMI handler (arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too long to run: > 697182.008 msecs I've been reporting these (and other traces) for a while https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/5/185 [1] on bare-metal. I've not managed to find time yet to try and narrow down the exact combination of trinity syscalls that causes this. Sometimes it happens quickly, sometimes after a few hours (even when run with the same seeds, it seems variable) Dave [1] lkml.org seems to be down right now. again. Sigh. See Subject: Yet more softlockups. and Subject: scheduling while atomic & hang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe trinity" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html