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** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671753 Title: "NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup" and "page allocation stalls" errors Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Triaged Bug description: My computer running Ubuntu Yakkety with 32 bit 4.8.0-41-generic kernel often locks up. Error messages like this appear in syslog: Mar 10 09:49:22 ReThinkCentre kernel: [47896.075600] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kswapd0:38] In later mainline kernels (4.10.0, or maybe even 4.9.0), the error message changes to this: Mar 4 22:07:04 ReThinkCentre kernel: [ 2815.183424] kthreadd: page allocation stalls for 11600ms, order:1, mode:0x17000c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_NOTRACK) I believe the root cause is the same behind the two kinds of error messages, the latter being more specific. One kernel version never shows these messages mixed, they either log "NMI watchdog" or "page allocation stalls", there is no kernel version which logs both. With kernel bisection, I found that the following commit solves the problem in the mainline kernel: 71ab6cfe88dcf9f6e6a65eb85cf2bda20a257682 mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count However, this patch doesn't easily apply to 4.8.0. I tried to backport it with git cherry-pick, but it run into conflicts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: linux-image-4.8.0-41-generic 4.8.0-41.44 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-41.44-generic 4.8.17 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-41-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: kutya 18471 F.... pulseaudio Date: Fri Mar 10 09:53:23 2017 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e0ebed7b-f012-4399-a6d9-584b8c64950b InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-16 (936 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.8.0-41-generic root=/dev/mapper/centrevg-rootlv ro rootflags=subvol=@ rootdelay=300 PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.8.0-41-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.8.0-41-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.161.1 RfKill: SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-01-22 (47 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/13/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 786F2 v01.55 dmi.board.asset.tag: CZC8428PV6 dmi.board.name: 2820h dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC8428PV6 dmi.chassis.type: 4 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786F2v01.55:bd02/13/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqdc5800SmallFormFactor:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn2820h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1671753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp