Reading of /proc/timer_list file leads to NMI watchdog soft lockups.
Issue
- System reports
soft lockupswhen :- Accessing
/proc/timer_listfile either once or repeatedly from shell or shell script or periodically from some monitoring
software that reads this file and stores data from it. - Executing sosreport command where plug-in
kernel.with-timerreads data from/proc/timer_listfile. - Large number of user space applications that does a lot of timer-based activities. For example, doing 1000+ of nanosleep() calls or very high network activity when a lot of network-related timers are registered in the kernel.
- Accessing
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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