Re: what to do on no reproducer case? (was Re: Fwd: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d/2d/ on CPU xx)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 20.09.23 02:27, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> [addressing to Thorsten]
> 
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 07:20:55AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1]. Quoting from it:
>>
>>> seems to be a regression since 6.5 release:
>>> the infamous error message from the kernel on this 32c/64t threadripper:
>>>> [ 2046.269103] perf: interrupt took too long (3141 > 3138), lowering
>>>> kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 63600
>>>> [ 2405.049567] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2d on CPU 48.
>>>> [ 2405.049571] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>> [ 2406.902609] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2d on CPU 33.
>>>> [ 2406.902612] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>> [ 2423.978918] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2d on CPU 33.
>>>> [ 2423.978921] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> [...]
>>> according to dmesg, this happens without any special reason (I didn't even notice)
>>> some googling points at a ACPI C state problem on AMD CPUs a few years ago
>>> in 5.14 kernels, I didn't see it.
>>
>> See Bugzilla for the full thread.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm adding this regression to be tracked by regzbot:
>>
>> #regzbot introduced: v6.4..v6.5 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217857
> 
> This regression looks stalled: on Bugzilla, the reporter keeps asking to me,
> for which I'm not the expert of involved subsystem. And apparently, he still
> had not any reproducer yet (is it triggered by random chance?). Should I
> mark this as inconclusive?

Yes, without a reliable bisection result there sometimes is not much we
can do -- apart from prodding various developers directly and asking for
help or an idea. But in this case that's not worth it afaics, as
messages like
https://lore.kernel.org/all/e08e33d5-4f6d-91aa-f335-9404d16a983c@xxxxxxx/
indicate that it might be a hardware problem and not really a
regression. Hence:

#regzbot resolve: inconclusive: not bisected and might be a hardware
problem after all

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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