On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > during rcu torture tests (TREE04 and TREE07) I noticed, that a > WARN_ON_ONCE() in sched core triggers on a recent 4.18-rc2 based > kernel (6f0d349d922b ("Merge > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net")) as well as > on a 4.17.3. > > I'm running the tests on a machine with 144 cores: > > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --cpus 144 --duration 120 > --configs "9*TREE07" > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --cpus 144 --duration 120 > --configs "18*TREE04" > > > The warning was introduced by commit d84b31313ef8 ("sched/isolation: > Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick"). > > > Output looks similar for all tests I did (this one is the output of > the 4.18-rc2 based kernel): > > WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 906 at kernel/sched/core.c:3138 > sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
That's nohz_full stuff, is that a normal part of rcutorture? In any case, is the one housekeeping CPU getting seriously overloaded or something?