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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail•com>
To: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm•de>, Andre Tomt <andre@tomt•net>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi•bg>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	stable@vger•kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 4.1.9: networking hangs with rcu_preempt self-detected stall, 4.1.8 works; was: Re: [PATCH 4.1 125/159] net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560D19D3.70305@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3770693.fDE1nljnWm@stwm.de>

On 10/01/15 13:29, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. September 2015, 12:48:43 schrieb Andre Tomt:
>> On 29. sep. 2015 12:21, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>> Meanwhile I'll revert both the mentioned net patches and see how it goes.
>>
>> So that blew up as well, meaning it's not any of these two patches:
>> [PATCH 4.1 124/159] net: do not process device backlog during unregistration
>> [PATCH 4.1 125/159] net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog
>>
>> I'll be offline for a half+ day, I'll look into bisecting when back if
>> nobody has figured it out by then.
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> 
> We see these rcu hangs with 4.1.9 on one of our routers, too. 4.1.8 runs fine.
> 
> The output I got the last time was:
> 
> [ 6488.174578] igb 000:06:00.1 eth3: Reset adapter
> [ 6497.350183] INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3}  (t=6301 jiffies g=383330 c=383329 q=1323)
> [ 6497.350229] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 6007 jiffies!
> [ 6560.311093] INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3}  (t=25205 jiffies g=383330 c=383329 q=4479)
> [ 6560.311140] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 24911 jiffies!
> [ 6623.272005] INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3}  (t=44109 jiffies g=383330 c=383329 q=7107)
> [ 6623.272049] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 43815 jiffies!
> [ 6633.053892] igb 000:06:00.0 eth2: Reset adapter
> [ 6633.053892] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 62719 jiffies!
> [ 6486.232914] INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3}  (t=63013 jiffies g=383330 c=383329 q=8487)
> [ 6486.233204] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 6007 jiffies!
> 
> 
> All other hangs basically were the same, the cpu varies though.
> 
> After that the router completely hangs: networking stops working and we need to restart it.

Please see the following thread for a suggested solution:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2087337.html

Please followup there as well.

thanks
Holger

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01 11:32 UTC|newest]

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2015-10-01 11:29     ` kernel 4.1.9: networking hangs with rcu_preempt self-detected stall, 4.1.8 works; was: Re: [PATCH 4.1 125/159] net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog Wolfgang Walter
2015-10-01 11:32       ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]

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