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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