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SubjectRe: [3.5.4] rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 1} (t=54862991 jiffies)
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On Monday 24 of September 2012 10:36:33 Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > with the new stable line i'm observing strange locks on my old amd-phenom-II mini-server.
> > here's a dmesg:
>
> Did this show up in 3.5.3? If not, can you run 'git bisect' to find the
> problem patch?

heh, the old good kernel put some light on this issue.

Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.301639] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -474690884 ns)
Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325477] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325484] WARNING: at /home/users/builder/rpm/BUILD/kernel-2.6.37.6/linux-2.6.37/net/sched/sch_generic.c:258 dev_watchdog+0x25d/0x270()
Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325486] Hardware name: GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Sep 25 08:50:24 nexus kernel: [60330.325487] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
(...)
Sep 25 08:50:25 nexus kernel: [60330.851093] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm

afaics, this amd-phenom cpu does the cpu frequency scaling and causes plain 'tsc' timer
instability which leads to network card watchdog timeout (i can login via local console
while any network traffic is dead). on the recent 3.5.x kernel the 'clocksource unstable'
message appears *after* 'task blocked' flood and there's no clear info about watchog timeout.
currently i'm testing hpet clocksource becasue better tsc modes (constant_tsc, nonstop_tsc)
aren't present in /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource while
cpu supports them.

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