Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:54:16 +0100 | From | Vlastimil Babka <> | Subject | Re: 3.18-rc3: soft lockup in compact_zone, dead machine |
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On 11/07/2014 11:06 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > My main machine died completely, it seems that original failure was > soft lockup in compact_zone().
(expanding CC)
Welcome to the club...
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/124451/match=isolate_freepages_block+very+high+intermittent+overhead
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/144
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/904
How reproducible is your case? So far it seems that git revert e14c720efdd73c6d69cd8d07fa894bcd11fe1973 helped one of the reporters. I still don't know what's wrong, but suspect a free scanner (cc->free_pfn) position being broken (i.e. underflow), which would allow isolate_migratepages() to run for a loooooooong time. The code does cond_resched() periodically, so soft lockup looks strange, but I guess that can happen in some contexts?
Vlastimil
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