Hard lockup detected due to a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Hard lockup with below call trace:
[323271.825843] Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
[323271.827423] CPU: 11 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/11 Tainted: G           OE  ------------   3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 #1
[323271.829055] Hardware name: New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd. R4900 G2/RS32M2C9S, BIOS 1.01.22 07/05/2018
[323271.830715]  ffff8810e951bd00 79e65ebce0fb5ce5 ffff88203f2c5b18 ffffffff816a3d91
[323271.832397]  ffff88203f2c5b98 ffffffff8169dc54 0000000000000010 ffff88203f2c5ba8
[323271.834090]  ffff88203f2c5b48 79e65ebce0fb5ce5 0000000000000000 ffffffff8190ac2f
[323271.835778] Call Trace:
[323271.837440]  <NMI>  [<ffffffff816a3d91>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[323271.839100]  [<ffffffff8169dc54>] panic+0xe8/0x20d
[323271.840719]  [<ffffffff8108771f>] nmi_panic+0x3f/0x40
[323271.842332]  [<ffffffff8112fa75>] watchdog_overflow_callback+0xf5/0x100
[323271.843956]  [<ffffffff8116e561>] __perf_event_overflow+0x51/0xf0
[323271.845578]  [<ffffffff811770b4>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
[323271.847201]  [<ffffffff81009f78>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x218/0x4f0
[323271.848825]  [<ffffffff81324abc>] ? ioremap_page_range+0x26c/0x3d0
[323271.850440]  [<ffffffff811c0a04>] ? vunmap_page_range+0x1b4/0x300
[323271.852056]  [<ffffffff811c0b61>] ? unmap_kernel_range_noflush+0x11/0x20
[323271.853647]  [<ffffffff813da15e>] ? ghes_copy_tofrom_phys+0x10e/0x210
[323271.855213]  [<ffffffff813da300>] ? ghes_read_estatus+0xa0/0x190
[323271.856771]  [<ffffffff816ac06b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
[323271.858328]  [<ffffffff816ad427>] nmi_handle.isra.0+0x87/0x160
[323271.859879]  [<ffffffff816ad710>] do_nmi+0x210/0x450
[323271.861422]  [<ffffffff816ac8d3>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
[323271.862962]  [<ffffffff810f31db>] ? tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x4b/0x370
[323271.864512]  [<ffffffff810f31db>] ? tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x4b/0x370
[323271.866039]  [<ffffffff810f31db>] ? tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x4b/0x370
[323271.867538]  <<EOE>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81033619>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[323271.869032]  [<ffffffff810f359f>] __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x9f/0x160
[323271.870497]  [<ffffffff810f3bb8>] tick_nohz_irq_exit+0xa8/0xb0
[323271.871963]  [<ffffffff81090e49>] irq_exit+0x89/0x110
[323271.873416]  [<ffffffff816b76c2>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x50
[323271.874877]  [<ffffffff816b5c1d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
[323271.876333]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff816ab7c9>] ? poll_idle+0x49/0x85
[323271.877804]  [<ffffffff816ab798>] ? poll_idle+0x18/0x85
[323271.879273]  [<ffffffff815279f0>] cpuidle_enter_state+0x40/0xc0
[323271.880743]  [<ffffffff81527b48>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xd8/0x210
[323271.882178]  [<ffffffff81034fee>] arch_cpu_idle+0xe/0x30
[323271.883579]  [<ffffffff810e7bca>] cpu_startup_entry+0x14a/0x1c0
[323271.884981]  [<ffffffff81051af6>] start_secondary+0x1b6/0x230

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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