Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752804Ab3GFHYO (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jul 2013 03:24:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com ([74.125.83.52]:47771 "EHLO mail-ee0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752590Ab3GFHYN (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jul 2013 03:24:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 09:24:08 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dave Jones , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , Peter Anvin , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: Yet more softlockups. Message-ID: <20130706072408.GA14865@gmail.com> References: <20130704015525.GA8486@redhat.com> <20130705143821.GB325@redhat.com> <20130705160043.GF325@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130705160043.GF325@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 36 * Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [trinity-child1:14565] > > > perf samples too long (2519 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000 > > > INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 238147.002 msecs > > > > So we see a softlockup of 23 seconds and the perf_event_nmi_handler > > claims it did run 23.8 seconds. > > > > Are there more instances of NMI handler messages ? > > [ 2552.006181] perf samples too long (2511 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000 > [ 2552.008680] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 500392.002 msecs Dave, could you pull in the latest perf fixes at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf/urgent In particular this: e5302920da9e perf: Fix interrupt handler timing harness could make a difference - if your tests somehow end up activating perf. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/