Re: [patch 5/5] clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely

From: Aithal, Srikanth

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 06:47:47 EST



On 9/18/2026 11:24 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 09:16:19AM +0530, Aithal, Srikanth wrote:
We have been seeing intermittent early-boot guest hangs in our CI for some
time. Guests stop making serial progress during the first few seconds after
SMP bring-up - no panic, no oops, no other error messages the vm just hangs.
Please enable CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG and run it again. That might tell us
something more about what's going on.

Thx.


I recreated the issue with CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG=y / DEFAULT=y (with and without csdlock_debug=1) and still get no csd wait dumps.