On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:59:23AM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote: > Hi, > > Using netconsole, I was able to capture a hard lockup that seems to be > related to cgroups, on a Fedora kernel based on v4.14.4. > > By my analysis, from the 16 CPUs below, 14 are on css_set_lock, one is > inside css_task_iter_advance, and the last one stuck trying to send an > IPI, I guess because all other CPUs are spinning. > > To add some context, I have been experiencing deadlocks on various > machines starting from 4.13 and it's the first time I was able to > capture one. It takes a few days to reproduce while idling or doing > random work, and I have not yet come up with precise steps that can > nail it. > > I can try out patches in order to get more info on this issue.
Can you please try the following patch? https://marc.info/?l=linux-cgroups&m=151378281708793&q=raw Thanks. -- tejun
