----- On Mar 25, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Paul E. McKenney paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:24:14PM +0000, Chatre, Reinette wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On 2016-03-23, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> > Please boot with the following parameters:
>> >
>> > rcu_tree.rcu_kick_kthreads ftrace
>> > trace_event=sched_waking,sched_wakeup,sched_wake_idle_without_ipi
>>
>> With these parameters I expected more details to show up in the kernel logs
>> but
>> cannot find any. Even so, today I left the machine running again and when
>> this
>> happened I think I was able to capture the trace data for the event. Please
>> find attached the trace information for the kernel message below. Since the
>> complete trace file is very big I trimmed it to show the time around this
>> event
>> - hopefully this will contain the information you need. I would also like to
>> provide some additional information. The system on which I see these events
>> had
>> a time that was _very_ wrong. I noticed that this issue occurs when
>> system-timesynd was one of the tasks calling the functions of interest to
>> your
>> tracing and am wondering if a very out of sync time in process of being
>> corrected could be the cause of this issue? As an experiment I ensured the
>> system time was accurate before leaving the system idle overnight and I did
>> not
>> see the issue the next morning.
>
> Ah! Yes, a sudden jump in time or a disagreement about the time among
> different components of the system can definitely cause these symptoms.
> We have sometimes seen these problems occur when a pair of CPUs have
> wildly different ideas about what time it is, for example. Please let
> me know how it goes.
>
> Also, in your trace, there are no sched_waking events for the rcu_preempt
> process that are not immediately followed by sched_wakeup, so your trace
> isn't showing the problem that I am seeing.
This is interesting.
Perhaps we could try with those commits reverted ?
commit e3baac47f0e82c4be632f4f97215bb93bf16b342
Author: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Jun 4 10:31:18 2014 -0700
sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
commit fd99f91aa007ba255aac44fe6cf21c1db398243a
Author: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Apr 9 15:35:08 2014 +0200
sched/idle: Avoid spurious wakeup IPIs
They appeared in 3.16.
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> Still beating up on my stress test, which is not yet proving to be all
> that stressful. :-/
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> [ 957.396537] INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
>> [ 957.399933] 1-...: (0 ticks this GP) idle=4d6/0/0 softirq=6311/6311 fqs=0
>> [ 957.403661] (detected by 0, t=60002 jiffies, g=3583, c=3582, q=47)
>> [ 957.407227] Task dump for CPU 1:
>> [ 957.409964] swapper/1 R running task 0 0 1
>> 0x00200000
>> [ 957.413770] 0000039daa9a7eb9 ffff8801785cfed0 ffffffff818af34c
>> ffff880100000000
>> [ 957.417696] 0000000600000003 ffff8801785d0000 ffff880072f9ea00
>> ffffffff822dcf80
>> [ 957.421631] ffff8801785cc000 ffff8801785cc000 ffff8801785cfee0
>> ffffffff818af597
>> [ 957.425562] Call Trace:
>> [ 957.428124] [<ffffffff818af34c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xfc/0x310
>> [ 957.431713] [<ffffffff818af597>] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20
>> [ 957.435122] [<ffffffff811515ba>] ? call_cpuidle+0x2a/0x40
>> [ 957.438467] [<ffffffff8115198d>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x28d/0x360
>> [ 957.441949] [<ffffffff8108c864>] ? start_secondary+0x114/0x140
>> [ 957.445378] rcu_preempt kthread starved for 60002 jiffies! g3583 c3582
>> f0x0
>> RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x1
>> [ 957.449834] rcu_preempt S ffff8801785b7d68 0 7 2
>> 0x00000000
>> [ 957.453579] ffff8801785b7d68 ffff88017dc8cc80 ffff88016fe6bb80
>> ffff8801785abb80
>> [ 957.457428] ffff8801785b8000 ffff8801785b7da0 ffff88017dc8cc80
>> ffff88017dc8cc80
>> [ 957.461249] 0000000000000003 ffff8801785b7d80 ffffffff81ab03df
>> 0000000100373021
>> [ 957.465055] Call Trace:
>> [ 957.467493] [<ffffffff81ab03df>] schedule+0x3f/0xa0
>> [ 957.470613] [<ffffffff81ab4397>] schedule_timeout+0x127/0x270
>> [ 957.473976] [<ffffffff81171a00>] ? detach_if_pending+0x120/0x120
>> [ 957.477387] [<ffffffff8116d983>] rcu_gp_kthread+0x6d3/0xa40
>> [ 957.480659] [<ffffffff811513a0>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x70/0x70
>> [ 957.484123] [<ffffffff8116d2b0>] ? force_qs_rnp+0x1b0/0x1b0
>> [ 957.487392] [<ffffffff8112f856>] kthread+0xe6/0x100
>> [ 957.490470] [<ffffffff8112f770>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x190/0x190
>> [ 957.493859] [<ffffffff81ab5ccf>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
>> [ 957.497044] [<ffffffff8112f770>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x190/0x190
>>
> > Reinette
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