Re: 18rc1 soft lockup

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 01:05 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > > Just when I thought it had gotten fixed..
> > > 2.6.18rc1-git6 this time on x86-64..
> > > 
> > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
> > > 
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  [<ffffffff80270865>] show_trace+0xaa/0x23d
> > >  [<ffffffff80270a0d>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> > >  [<ffffffff802c44e6>] softlockup_tick+0xd5/0xea
> > >  [<ffffffff80250bea>] run_local_timers+0x13/0x15
> > >  [<ffffffff8029cc1d>] update_process_times+0x4c/0x79
> > >  [<ffffffff8027bfeb>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x2b/0x50
> > >  [<ffffffff8027c766>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x58/0x62
> > >  [<ffffffff802628ae>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
> > 
> > Hmmm.. grumble. Was this on bootup, or after some time period?
> > 
> > I'm looking into it.
> 
> I don't quite understand how this is clock related, soft lockup uses 
> jiffies and there is nothing clock related in the trace???

Hmmm. Well, its easy to check:

Dave, could you comment out the "clocksource_adjust(...)" line in
kernel/timer.c::update_wall_time() just to check if its the same issue?

thanks
-john


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