Re: linux 5.12 - fails to boot - soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! - RIP smp_call_function_single

[Borislav Petkov]

+ lkml.

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:13:45AM -0600, James Feeney wrote:
> I re-ran my git bisect, this time with a full power-down and cold boot, and more thorough testing, running a web browser.  My second bisect went from good to bad.
> 
> So now, instead, git bisect ended here:
> 
> 4f432e8bb15b352da72525144da025a46695968f is the first bad commit
> commit 4f432e8bb15b352da72525144da025a46695968f
> Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jan 7 13:23:34 2021 +0100
> 
>     x86/mce: Get rid of mcheck_intel_therm_init()
> 
>     Move the APIC_LVTTHMR read which needs to happen on the BSP, to
>     intel_init_thermal(). One less boot dependency.
> 
>     No functional changes.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201142704.12495-2-bp@xxxxxxxxx
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h            |  6 ------
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c        |  1 -
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c | 15 ++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Please let me know if that makes more sense.

Not really - this is the first time I'm seeing this and I highly doubt
your bisection is correct. But we'll see.

> 
> Again:
> 
> Arch Linux
> linux 5.12.arch1-1

Can you reproduce with the upstream 5.12 kernel to rule out influence by
any distro-specific patches?

> Intel Core2 T7200
> Mobile Intel 945PM Express Chipset
> ICH7-M
> Mobility Radeon X1600

Can you send full dmesg from a working kernel and the .config you're
using with 5.12?

> Generally, on failure, the system will not boot past "Loading initial ramdisk...", or, when it does, the boot process will hang, and the console will eventually show:
> 
> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [systemd-udevd: 241]
> ...
> RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_single+0xf7/0x140
> 
> The top of the call trace variously shows either "__flush_tlb_all" or "tlbflush_read_file", with the "soft lockup" repeating indefinitely.
> 

I'm presuming there's no way to connect your box over serial cable to
another one so that you can catch the full bad dmesg when it hangs? It
would be good if you could...

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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