On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com> wrote: > > > From the paths related to futex wait we are stuck when taking the hb > spinlock in futex_wait_setup >> queue_lock.
Just judging from your trace, I would have suspected a (possibly soft) lockup in load_balance() rather than the futexes. The futex being stuck seems expected, since one cpu is definitely holding the lock - it was interrupted by a timer interrupt at the successful return case of raw_spin_lock if I read the offset right. So if that softirq is stuck - perhaps because it's in some endless loop in load_balance(), or perhaps because it's spending so much time load-balancing that the next balancing time happens immediately, or whatever - then you'd see that trace. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/