Re: [regression] suspend stress test stalls within 30 minutes

From: Pawan Gupta
Date: Thu May 16 2024 - 11:42:19 EST


On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:32:54AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/16/24 07:25, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:03:22AM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> >> I am running the suspend test now and will update in the morning if I
> >> could reproduce the hang.
> > Completed 500 suspend iterations, but the hang is not reproduced 🙁
> > I have restarted the test.
> >
> > BTW, could you please share your /proc/cmdline? Also, was there any
> > workload running with the suspend test? If I could not reproduce it in the
> > next run, I will run stress-ng with the suspend test.
>
> I'd suggest two things:
>
> * Run everything in tools/testing/selftests/x86 in a loop during the
> suspend test.
> * Run perf or something else to generate some NMIs.

Will do.

> Those will ensure the dark corners of the entry code are being
> sufficiently prodded.
>
> I also have sneaking suspicion that microcode updates during resume are
> the aggravating factor.

Lets see if Kalle is able to reproduce the hang with "dis_ucode_ldr".