Re: Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:40, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 04 April 2011, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
>> The result is available in these pictures:
>>   https://secure.tgbyte.de/dropbox/IeZalo4t-1.jpg
>>   https://secure.tgbyte.de/dropbox/IeZalo4t-2.jpg
>>
>> For both traces, the printed error message reads: "BUG: soft lockup -
>> CPU#3 stuck for 67s! [kblockd:28]"
>>
>> (After a bit of Googling I understand that a soft lockup is probably
>> different from a deadlock - please correct me if that assumption is
>> wrong)
>
> My interpretation is that some process tries to use
> kblockd_schedule_work() after the CPU for that workqueue has been
> disabled. The work queue functions (worker_maybe_bind_and_lock)
> is waiting for the CPU to become available, which it doesn't do.

Thanks for your help so far!

Is there a way to figure out which process that may be?

> You see different outputs every time the softlockup detection finds
> this because the loop is in different states here. The reason why
> the spin_unlock shows up here is because that is when the interrupts
> get enabled and the softlockup detection notices the timeout.

OK, that make sense.

> I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with the bisected bug
> that you initially found, but maybe somebody else can try analysing
> this better.

ACK. I see two possibilities:
a) The bug was introduced after the bisected bug was fixed
b) The bug was already present earlier, but was masked by the bug from
the bisected change

I hope for a) as that would open the possibility to bisect this new bug.

Regards,
Thilo