On 03/09/2016 09:51 PM, Jaroslav Pulchart wrote:
> Hello Corey and Gouji
>
> I'm sorry for contacting you directly, however I have "bad" experience 
> in using Kernel's bugzilla to report some issues. I would like to 
> start some discussion about problem introduced by 
> 0cfec916e86d881e209de4b4ae9959a6271e6660 commit of Linux Kernel 
> (4.1.x, 4.4.x):
>

Contacting directly is fine, that what's normally done, though it's best 
to copy the mail list, too.

Nobody else has reported this and it has been quite a while.  So that's 
a little strange, but not unheard of.

Can you enable nmi watchdog and get a backtrace for this?  I have no 
idea how that change could have caused a lockup.  It's just doing 
something for some messages (ones generated internally) that was done on 
all other messages, so it's really nothing new.

-corey

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> commit 8dfca273353b9131dfd82c2720ccd78f89fd44ae
> Author: Corey Minyard <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date:   Sat Sep 5 17:44:13 2015 -0500
>
>     ipmi: Start the timer and thread on internal msgs
>
>     commit 0cfec916e86d881e209de4b4ae9959a6271e6660 upstream.
>
>     The timer and thread were not being started for internal messages,
>     so in interrupt mode if something hung the timer would never go
>     off and clean things up.  Factor out the internal message sending
>     and start the timer for those messages, too.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     Tested-by: Gouji, Masayuki <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I found that linux kernel >= 4.1.17 (with this commit) running on DELL 
> R720xd servers will always panic with report about "hard LOCKUP" after 
> Dell's services are started (using IPMI).
>
> Reverting this commit from 4.1.17 (or .18, .19) fix the issue.
>
> Please propose next steps. I can help you with the testing on these 
> servers.
>
> Best regards,
> Jaroslav Pulchart


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