Hi, while trying to debug one of the Xenomai 3.2 issues listed at [1] I run into the situation described below on my x86 system. The problem (or at least the "system hang" is reproducible on real hardware and on qemu/kvm.
Once the system is frozen, attaching GDB to the qemu process shows me: (gdb) info threads Id Target Id Frame * 1 Thread 1 (CPU#0 [running]) csd_lock_wait (csd=0xffff88803e92ea00) at kernel/smp.c:228 2 Thread 2 (CPU#1 [running]) 0x0000564f0b05d36d in ?? () 3 Thread 3 (CPU#2 [running]) csd_lock_wait (csd=0xffff88803e82f1e0) at kernel/smp.c:228 4 Thread 4 (CPU#3 [running]) csd_lock_wait (csd=0xffff88803e82f200) at kernel/smp.c:228 So three of my CPUs are waiting for other CPUs to complete a function call IPI. It looks like CPU1 is not responding anymore. The system is completely unusable at this point. (gdb) bt #0 csd_lock_wait (csd=0xffff88803e92ea00) at kernel/smp.c:228 #1 smp_call_function_many_cond (mask=mask@entry=0xffff88800448c340, func=func@entry=0xffffffff81055bb0 <flush_tlb_func_remote>, info=info@entry=0xffffffff8200acc0 <full_flush_tlb_info>, wait=wait@entry=true, cond_func=cond_func@entry=0xffffffff810550b0 <tlb_is_not_lazy>) at kernel/smp.c:693 #2 0xffffffff810f56f5 in on_each_cpu_cond_mask (cond_func=cond_func@entry=0xffffffff810550b0 <tlb_is_not_lazy>, func=func@entry=0xffffffff81055bb0 <flush_tlb_func_remote>, info=info@entry=0xffffffff8200acc0 <full_flush_tlb_info>, wait=wait@entry=true, mask=mask@entry=0xffff88800448c340) at kernel/smp.c:904 #3 0xffffffff81055538 in native_flush_tlb_others (cpumask=cpumask@entry=0xffff88800448c340, info=info@entry=0xffffffff8200acc0 <full_flush_tlb_info>) at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:840 #4 0xffffffff81055fac in flush_tlb_others (info=0xffffffff8200acc0 <full_flush_tlb_info>, cpumask=0xffff88800448c340) at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1170 #5 arch_tlbbatch_flush (batch=batch@entry=0xffff88800448c340) at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1170 #6 0xffffffff811ae3e1 in try_to_unmap_flush () at mm/rmap.c:602 #7 0xffffffff8117d9d3 in shrink_page_list (page_list=page_list@entry=0xffffc9000306f910, pgdat=pgdat@entry=0xffff88803ffdb000, sc=sc@entry=0xffffc9000306fb18, stat=stat@entry=0xffffc9000306f924, ignore_references=ignore_references@entry=false) at mm/vmscan.c:1487 #8 0xffffffff8117f79c in shrink_inactive_list (nr_to_scan=<optimized out>, lruvec=lruvec@entry=0xffff88803ffde508, sc=sc@entry=0xffffc9000306fb18, lru=lru@entry=LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) at mm/vmscan.c:1962 #9 0xffffffff811800dc in shrink_list (sc=0xffffc9000306fb18, lruvec=0xffff88803ffde508, nr_to_scan=<optimized out>, lru=<optimized out>) at mm/vmscan.c:2169 #10 shrink_lruvec (lruvec=lruvec@entry=0xffff88803ffde508, sc=sc@entry=0xffffc9000306fb18) at mm/vmscan.c:2464 #11 0xffffffff81180374 in shrink_node_memcgs (sc=0xffffc9000306fb18, pgdat=0xffff88803ffdb000) at mm/vmscan.c:2652 #12 shrink_node (pgdat=pgdat@entry=0xffff88803ffdb000, sc=sc@entry=0xffffc9000306fb18) at mm/vmscan.c:2769 #13 0xffffffff811806c8 in shrink_zones (sc=0xffffc9000306fb18, zonelist=0xffff88803ffdc400) at mm/vmscan.c:2972 #14 do_try_to_free_pages (zonelist=zonelist@entry=0xffff88803ffdc400, sc=sc@entry=0xffffc9000306fb18) at mm/vmscan.c:3027 #15 0xffffffff811817f6 in try_to_free_pages (zonelist=0xffff88803ffdc400, order=order@entry=1, gfp_mask=gfp_mask@entry=4197824, nodemask=<optimized out>) at mm/vmscan.c:3266 #16 0xffffffff811ba411 in __perform_reclaim (ac=0xffffc9000306fc90, ac=0xffffc9000306fc90, order=1, gfp_mask=4197824) at mm/page_alloc.c:4335 #17 __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim (did_some_progress=<synthetic pointer>, ac=0xffffc9000306fc90, alloc_flags=2112, order=1, gfp_mask=4197824) at mm/page_alloc.c:4356 #18 __alloc_pages_slowpath (gfp_mask=<optimized out>, gfp_mask@entry=4197824, order=order@entry=1, ac=ac@entry=0xffffc9000306fc90) at mm/page_alloc.c:4760 #19 0xffffffff811baf44 in __alloc_pages_nodemask (gfp_mask=<optimized out>, gfp_mask@entry=4197824, order=order@entry=1, preferred_nid=<optimized out>, nodemask=0x0 <fixed_percpu_data>) at mm/page_alloc.c:4970 #20 0xffffffff811ce039 in alloc_pages_current (gfp=gfp@entry=4197824, order=order@entry=1) at ./include/linux/topology.h:88 #21 0xffffffff811b6248 in alloc_pages (order=order@entry=1, gfp_mask=4197824) at ./include/linux/gfp.h:547 #22 __get_free_pages (gfp_mask=gfp_mask@entry=4197824, order=order@entry=1) at mm/page_alloc.c:4994 #23 0xffffffff8105482c in _pgd_alloc () at arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:430 #24 pgd_alloc (mm=mm@entry=0xffff88800315e400) at arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:430 #25 0xffffffff8105efae in mm_alloc_pgd (mm=0xffff88800315e400) at kernel/fork.c:1054 #26 mm_init (mm=mm@entry=0xffff88800315e400, user_ns=<optimized out>, p=0xffff888002bbc880) at kernel/fork.c:1054 #27 0xffffffff8105f624 in dup_mm (oldmm=0xffff888004efa800, tsk=0xffff888002bbc880) at kernel/fork.c:1369 #28 0xffffffff810616a5 in copy_mm (tsk=0xffff888002bbc880, clone_flags=0) at ./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:15 #29 copy_process (pid=pid@entry=0x0 <fixed_percpu_data>, trace=trace@entry=0, node=node@entry=-1, args=args@entry=0xffffc9000306fed0) at kernel/fork.c:2110 #30 0xffffffff81061934 in kernel_clone (args=args@entry=0xffffc9000306fed0) at kernel/fork.c:2471 #31 0xffffffff81061c8f in __do_sys_fork (__unused=<optimized out>) at kernel/fork.c:2534 #32 0xffffffff81b41693 in do_syscall_64 (nr=<optimized out>, regs=0xffffc9000306ff58) at arch/x86/entry/common.c:55 #33 0xffffffff81c0007c in entry_SYSCALL_64 () at arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120 #34 0x00000000000526aa in ?? () #35 0x0000564f0b0bc2b0 in ?? () #36 0x0000000000000001 in fixed_percpu_data () #37 0x00007ffe0ee549f0 in ?? () #38 0x0000564f0b657260 in ?? () #39 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Kernel-Config: Attached. It's a x86_64 defconfig with the following modifications: - CONFIG_XENOMAI disabled - CONFIG_DOVETAIL disabled - CONFIG_MIGRATION disabled - CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled (to be able to debug) - CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS enabled (debugging...) I disabled Xenomai and Dovetail to limit the search scope. The problem remains reproducible without them. Workload: Stressing the system with stress-ng. After 45 to 60 minutes the system is frozen. cmdline: stress-ng --cpu 4 --io 2 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M --fork 4 --timeout 0 IRQ flag: All CPUs (or gdb threads) waiting at kernel/smp.c:228 have the IF flag (part of eflag register) unset, while other CPUs have it set: (gdb) info register eflags 0x2 [ ] vs eflags 0x202 [ IF ] smp_call_function_many_cond() has some notes about deadlocks that might appear when being called with IRQs disabled, but I actually never saw one of the warnings that should come up. As IF flag is unset, someone has to turn off IRQs later (while waiting) and that might be the reason for the deadlock. Ideas / feedback / advice welcome. Thanks! Best regards, Florian [1] https://gitlab.com/Xenomai/xenomai-hacker-space/-/issues/16 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT23394.config_pipe_nodovetail_noxeno URL: <http://xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/attachments/20210503/73c26aac/attachment.ksh>