During boot on systems with 480+ CPU's audit message may be overloaded and suppressed
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Issue
During boot on systems with 480+ CPU's audit messaging may become overloaded and suppressed. This can cause soft lockups during the boot process.
Environment
RHEL6.5+
Platforms with 480+ CPUs
Description
During boot, messages similar to the following may be seen in the audit logs:
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 67s! [udev...
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