I would note that the kernel watchdog timeouts here are always at 20 odd
seconds.  They are not increasing so whatever is occuring is progressing
at least as far as the kernel is concerned.  If we assume the systemd
log is still working (and it was shortly before the event when it
reported reaching shutdown state) then we would expect it to be in the
process of attempting to deconstruct the system before calling reboot.
Most of the deconstructors it calls are reported before calling.  There
is one, cg_trim(), which is not announced.  Looking at the
implementation of that it is doing a hierachical remove of the
/sys/fs/cgroup hierachy.  On my system this is some 15000 files in 1300
directories.  If there was a performance issue in there we could easily
spend hours in this call with nothing logged.

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Title:
  Some VMs fail to reboot with "watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck
  for 22s! [systemd:1]"

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in qemu-kvm package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Zesty:
  Incomplete
Status in qemu-kvm source package in Zesty:
  New
Status in linux source package in Artful:
  In Progress
Status in qemu-kvm source package in Artful:
  Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in qemu-kvm source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is impacting us for ubuntu autopkgtests. Eventually the whole
  region ends up dying because each worker is hit by this bug in turn
  and backs off until the next reset (6 hourly).

  17.10 (and bionic) guests are sometimes failing to reboot. When this
  happens, you see the following in the console

    [[0;32m  OK  [0m] Reached target Shutdown.
    [  191.698969] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [systemd:1]
    [  219.698438] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [systemd:1]
    [  226.702150] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
    [  226.704958] »(detected by 0, t=15002 jiffies, g=5347, c=5346, q=187)
    [  226.706093] All QSes seen, last rcu_sched kthread activity 15002 
(4294949060-4294934058), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
    [  226.708202] rcu_sched kthread starved for 15002 jiffies! g5347 c5346 
f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x0

  One host that exhibits this behaviour was:

    Linux klock 4.4.0-98-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 14:24:03 UTC
  2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  guest running:

    Linux version 4.13.0-16-generic (buildd@lcy01-02) (gcc version 7.2.0
  (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu2)) #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 11 18:35:14 UTC 2017
  (Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4)

  The affected cloud region is running the xenial/Ocata cloud archive,
  so the version of qemu-kvm in there may also be relevant.

  Here's how I reproduced it in lcy01:

    $ for n in {1..30}; do nova boot --flavor m1.small --image 
ubuntu/ubuntu-artful-17.10-amd64-server-20171026.1-disk1.img --key-name 
testbed-`hostname` --nic net-name=net_ues_proposed_migration laney-test${n}; 
done
    $ <ssh to each instance> sudo reboot
    # wait a minute or so for the instances to all reboot
    $ for n in {1..30}; do echo "=== ${n} ==="; nova console-log laney-test${n} 
| tail; done

  On bad instances you'll see the "soft lockup" message - on good it'll
  reboot as normal.

  We've seen good and bad instances on multiple compute hosts - it
  doesn't feel to me like a host problem but rather a race condition
  somewhere that's somehow either triggered or triggered much more often
  by what lcy01 is running. I always saw this on the first reboot -
  never on first boot, and never on n>1th boot. (But if it's a race then
  that might not mean much.)

  I'll attach a bad and a good console-log for reference.

  If you're at Canonical then see internal rt #107135 for some other
  details.

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