Re: rcu stalls and soft lockups with recent kernels

From: Ion Badulescu
Date: Tue Mar 22 2016 - 16:25:25 EST


On 03/17/2016 10:28 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 12:15 -0400, Ion Badulescu wrote:
Just following up to my own email:

It turns out that we can eliminate the RCU stalls by changing from
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL to CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE. Letting each cpu
handle its own RCU callbacks completely fixes the problems for us.

Now, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL is the default config
for fedora and rhel7. Ho-humm...

All RCU offloaded to CPU0 of a big box seems like a very bad idea.


It's not offloaded to CPU0, is it? Those rcuo* threads are not cpu-bound and can run on any cpu the scheduler will put them on. In any case, there was no indication that the rcuo* threads wanted to run but couldn't get cpu time.

Anyway, looks like I spoke too soon. It's less often with RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE than with RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, but the soft lockups and rcu stalls are still happening.

[44206.316711] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog: Marking clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
[44206.328463] clocksource: 'hpet' wd_now: ffffffff wd_last: 5f03cdca mask: ffffffff
[44206.339037] clocksource: 'tsc' cs_now: 64788b443c3a cs_last: 647840eea919 mask: ffffffffffffffff
[44206.351253] clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet
[44922.301452] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
[44922.307644] 0-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=53d/140000000000001/0 softirq=8515474/8515477 fqs=6994
[44922.317435] (detected by 1, t=21019 jiffies, g=2011397, c=2011396, q=3263)
[44922.325274] Task dump for CPU 0:
[44922.325276] python R running task 0 257113 257112 0x00080088 0 FAIR 1 0 152294 48373
[44922.325283] ffffffff8152ca8e ffff881b76870000 ffff880e83669000 0000000000007d54
[44922.333671] ffff881b1cdc7a48 ffff880a58a57e58 0000000000000086 0000000000000000
[44922.342060] 0000000000000000 0000000000003fa1 ffff880a58a54000 ffff880a58a57e88
[44922.350446] Call Trace:
[44922.353215] [<ffffffff8152ca8e>] ? __schedule+0x38e/0xa90
[44922.359388] [<ffffffff810ad536>] ? rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x66/0x130
[44922.366437] [<ffffffff810f38fc>] ? acct_account_cputime+0x1c/0x20
[44922.373388] [<ffffffff81086698>] ? account_user_time+0x78/0x80
[44922.380045] [<ffffffff810866e3>] ? vtime_account_user+0x43/0x60
[44922.386801] [<ffffffff81132de0>] ? __context_tracking_exit+0x70/0xc0
[44922.394044] [<ffffffff810019af>] ? enter_from_user_mode+0x1f/0x50
[44922.400994] [<ffffffff815312b9>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x69/0x90
[44923.210453] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 21s! [python:257113]
[44923.218890] Modules linked in: nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs msr autofs4 lockd grace sunrpc cachefiles fscache binfmt_misc nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat vhost_net vhost tun kvm irqbypass input_leds hid_generic iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr sfc mtd i2c_algo_bit sb_edac sg l
pc_ich mfd_core ehci_pci ehci_hcd xhci_pci xhci_hcd i2c_i801 i2c_core ixgbe ptp pps_core mdio ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler tpm_tis tpm acpi_power_meter hwmon ext4 jbd2 mbcache crc16 raid1 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[44923.269289] CPU: 0 PID: 257113 Comm: python Tainted: G I 4.4.5-el6.ia32e.lime.0 #1
[44923.279089] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WTT/S2600WTT, BIOS SE5C610.86B.01.01.0011.081020151200 08/10/2015
[44923.290824] task: ffff880e83669000 ti: ffff880a58a54000 task.ti: ffff880a58a54000
[44923.299253] RIP: 0033:[<00002b5ee4e0502d>] [<00002b5ee4e0502d>] 0x2b5ee4e0502d
[44923.307508] RSP: 002b:00007ffe4120b170 EFLAGS: 00000212
[44923.313494] RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: 0000000003fe1480 RCX: 0000000003fc9b00
[44923.321513] RDX: 00002b5ee34b4260 RSI: 0000000000002248 RDI: 00000000000000d4
[44923.329530] RBP: 0000000003fe1800 R08: 0000000000000078 R09: 0000000000000800
[44923.337548] R10: 00007ffe4120b550 R11: 0000000000011240 R12: 00002b5ee34ba938
[44923.345566] R13: 00002b5ee34c1010 R14: 00007ffe4120b428 R15: 0000000000000400
[44923.353580] FS: 00002b5ec7fe98c0(0000) GS:ffff88103fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[44923.362689] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[44923.369147] CR2: 00002b5ee4190000 CR3: 00000005ac81b000 CR4: 00000000001406f0

That rcu_eqs_enter_common function seems to be a fairly common occurrence in these stack traces. Not sure if it means anything, though.

Also, this seems to be a sock lockup with RIP in userspace. Does it mean timer interrupts are disabled? Somehow it fails to reschedule the NMI timer.

We're at our wits' end here...

This, btw, is a 2x12 core Haswell box.

Thanks,
-Ion