This has been resolved with the following commits upstream:
commit d133166146333e1f13fc81c0e6c43c8d99290a8a Author: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> locking/qrwlock: Prevent slowpath writers getting held up by fastpath commit 087133ac90763cd339b6b67f2998f87dcc136c52 Author: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> locking/qrwlock, arm64: Move rwlock implementation over to qrwlocks commit b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 Author: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> locking/qrwlock: Use atomic_cond_read_acquire() when spinning in qrwlock commit 4df714be4dcf40bfb0d4af0f851a6e1977afa02e Author: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> locking/atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_acquire() commit e0d02285f16e8d5810f3d5d5e8a5886ca0015d3b Author: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> locking/qrwlock: Use 'struct qrwlock' instead of 'struct __qrwlock -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732238 Title: arm64: Unfair rwlock can stall the system Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Artful: Confirmed Bug description: [Impact] There is a long-standing upstream bug with the ARM64 specific implementation of RW locks. The implementation can starve writers under lock contention leading to RCU stalls and general system instability. [Test Case] $ stress-ng --kill 0 -t 300 -v You'll see the console fill with messages like: [ 2534.423119] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: [ 2534.428606] 192-...: (1 ticks this GP) idle=b6e/140000000000000/0 softirq=578/578 fqs=6770 [ 2534.437029] (detected by 0, t=15005 jiffies, g=1479, c=1478, q=473) [ 2714.623691] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: [ 2714.629181] 192-...: (1 ticks this GP) idle=b6e/140000000000000/0 softirq=578/578 fqs=12819 [ 2714.637692] (detected by 116, t=60058 jiffies, g=1479, c=1478, q=1736) [ 2747.216955] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:5:1464] [ 2775.399061] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#13 stuck for 123s! [systemd-network:2936] [Regression Risk] TBD To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1732238/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp