Added some CC-s because of bisect find. Whole context should be still
here.
> > > > > > This is on my trusty IBM PC365, dual Pentium Pro. 4.10 worked fine,
> > > > > > 4.10.0-09686-g9e314890292c and 4.10.0-10770-g2d6be4abf514 exhibit a
> > > > > > problem. Ocassionally NMI watchdog kicks in and discovers one of
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > CPUs in LOCKUP. The system keeps running fine. The first lockup was
> > > > > > different, all the others were from arch_cpu_idle. Sometime ecey
> > > > > > couple
> > > > > > of seconds (after some activity), sometimes nothing for a long time
> > > > > > (idle, no SSH logins).
> > > > >
> > > > > The only watchdog related patch which hit after 4.10 is:
> > > > >
> > > > > 8dcde9def5a1 kernel/watchdog.c: do not hardcode CPU 0 as the initial
> > > > > thread
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you try to revert that for a start? I'm not seeing why it should
> > > > > be the
> > > > > culprit from a quick glance, but ...
> > > >
> > > > Reverting this patch does not help.
> > >
> > > I did not expect that, but excluding it was a valid shot in the
> > > dark. Thanmks for trying.
> > >
> > > To be honest, I have no idea what causes that at the moment, but I will
> > > come back to you tomorrow after thinking it through (with brain awake) how
> > > to debug this.
> >
> > Went through the related changes which came in during the merge window. One
> > which affects the per cpu timers is: 914122c389d0
> >
> > Can you try to revert that one please?
>
> Running out of obvious culprits. Any chance that you can do a bisect or
> this too painful on that box?
Done on a P4 where the problem also appeared. The bisecting resulted in
this commit. Does it seem realistic? I will also try if this help son
the old PPro.
93825f2ec736f30e034ab7c9d56b42849c5b00da is the first bad commit
commit 93825f2ec736f30e034ab7c9d56b42849c5b00da
Author: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jan 31 04:09:16 2017 +0100
jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER_JIFFY
NSEC_PER_JIFFY is an ad-hoc redefinition of TICK_NSEC. Let's rather
use a unique and well maintained version.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-1-git-send-email-fweis...@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
:040000 040000 219afc6bb9e757532791f93ed05ddf68a7124cb0
fb9cc12366f970c1bc4872cc38b1c4df5ce9594d M kernel
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Meelis Roos (mr...@linux.ee)
