kernel:[ 1155.839866] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Sun Sep 28 2014 - 05:05:49 EST


While trying yesterdays 3.17 git snapshot on a i5-2400 + intel graphics
computer, it seems to go into soft lockup. Still pings but no ssh to it
any more, and active ssh session got the following kind of NMI watchdog
soft lockups during aptitude list update:

essage from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:43:55 ...
kernel:[ 1015.866355] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

Message from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:44:23 ...
kernel:[ 1043.861061] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

Message from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:44:51 ...
kernel:[ 1071.855791] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

Message from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:45:19 ...
kernel:[ 1099.850501] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

Message from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:45:47 ...
kernel:[ 1127.845192] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [kworker/u8:5:71]

Message from syslogd@ilves at Sep 27 11:46:15 ...
kernel:[ 1155.839866] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [kworker/u8:5:71]


3.16 ran fine.

This was remote reboot into the new kernel, so only graphics usage is
kms console on i915 + kdm login screen. Only user-initiaded action was
ssh connection with dmesg, su -, aptitude and aptitude list update from
there.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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