Re: Bug Report High CPU Usage events_power_efficient

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:50:49AM +0300, Martin Zaharinov wrote:
> Add Greg , Florian, Eric to this bug 
> 
> > On 7 Jul 2020, at 22:54, Martin Zaharinov <micron10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > And this is log from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
> > 
> > 
> > # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 32410/32410   #P:64
> > #
> > #                              _-----=> irqs-off
> > #                             / _----=> need-resched
> > #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> > #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
> > #                            ||| /     delay
> > #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> > #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29619.680698: workqueue_execute_start: work struct 00000000ef22e4b8: function gc_worker [nf_conntrack]
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29623.811407: workqueue_execute_end: work struct 00000000ef22e4b8: function gc_worker [nf_conntrack]
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29623.811410: workqueue_execute_start: work struct 0000000000aeec55: function fb_flashcursor
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29623.811421: workqueue_execute_end: work struct 0000000000aeec55: function fb_flashcursor
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29623.811422: workqueue_execute_start: work struct 00000000a6d382bb: function vmstat_update
> >           <...>-57259 [005] .... 29623.811435: workqueue_execute_end: work struct 00000000a6d382bb: function vmstat_update
> > 
> >> On 7 Jul 2020, at 22:44, Martin Zaharinov <micron10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 
> >> the problem is hear with kernel 5.7.7 
> >> 
> >> last work kernel without this problem is 5.6.7
> >> 
> >> hear is more info:
> >> 
> >> cat /proc/57259/stack
> >> root@megacableamarilis:~# cat /proc/57259/stack
> >> [<0>] gc_worker+0x1be/0x380 [nf_conntrack]
> >> [<0>] process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3b0
> >> [<0>] worker_thread+0x4d/0x460
> >> [<0>] kthread+0x10d/0x130
> >> [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> >> 
> >> PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                            57259 root      28   0       0      0      0 R  69.8   0.0  82:42.14 kworker/5:2+events_power_efficient                                                          
> >> 32 root      21   0       0      0      0 R  31.0   0.0  87:06.33 ksoftirqd/4
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Please help to fix this problem
> >> 
> >>> On 22 Apr 2020, at 15:55, Martin Zaharinov <micron10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hello Qian and Greg 
> >>> With latest 5.6.x kernel have problem with events_power_efficient 28488 root      28   0       0      0      0 R  95.5   0.0 101:38.19 kworker/2:1+events_power_efficient Process start to load machine after 3-4 hour and load not stop only reboot machine remove process . Server runing on AMD EPIC CPU 2x 7301 32Gb Ram Have 2 x 10G card Intel when machine load over 1G traffic machine locked and only restart fix problem to next load . After move traffic and server stop load process still hear and load server ?
> >>> And after reboot process move to other core .

Have you used 'git bisect' to try to find the offending commit?

Without that, it's going to be hard to help you out here.

thanks,

greg k-h