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A customer reported the following softlockup: [899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464] [899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4 [899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30 [899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks [899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30 [899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12 [899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000 [899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00 [899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8 [899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000 [899688.160002] tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0 [899688.160002] __vfs_read+0x26/0x140 [899688.160002] vfs_read+0x87/0x130 [899688.160002] SyS_read+0x42/0x90 [899688.160002] do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160 It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe() via the "waitagain" label. Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter->seq was completely zeroed at this point, including iter->seq.seq.size. It means that print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and there was no forward progress. The culprit seems to be in the code: /* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */ memset(&iter->seq, 0, sizeof(struct trace_iterator) - offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq)); It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace: add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1. It was the time when iter->seq looked like: struct trace_seq { unsigned char buffer[PAGE_SIZE]; unsigned int len; }; There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine. The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without zeroing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.