Gautham R Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:36:16PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
>> * Gautham R Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-07-03 10:54:16]:
>> 
>> > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > 
>> > In the situations where snooze is the only cpuidle state due to
>> > firmware not exposing any platform idle states, the idle CPUs will
>> > remain in snooze for a long time with interrupts disabled causing the
>> > Hard-lockup detector to complain.
>> 
>> snooze_loop() will spin in SMT low priority with interrupt enabled. We
>> have local_irq_enable() before we get into the snooze loop.
>> Since this is a polling state, we should wakeup without an interrupt
>> and hence we set TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG as well.
>>
>
> You are right. We have a local_irq_enable() inside the snooze_loop.
>> 
>> > watchdog: CPU 51 detected hard LOCKUP on other CPUs 59
>> > watchdog: CPU 51 TB:535296107736, last SMP heartbeat TB:527472229239 
>> > (15281ms ago)
>> > watchdog: CPU 59 Hard LOCKUP
>> > watchdog: CPU 59 TB:535296252849, last heartbeat TB:526554725466 (17073ms 
>> > ago)
>> 
>> hmm.. not sure why watchdog will complain, maybe something more is
>> going on.
>
> Will look into this Vaidy.

I'll wait for a v2.

cheers

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