The task is getting stuck waiting for the vmci_resouce releasing upon the balloon reset on the RHEL guest on VMware hypervisor.
Issue
- The task is getting stuck waiting for the vmci_resouce releasing upon the balloon reset on the RHEL guest on VMware hypervisor.
2302774.578854] INFO: task kworker/10:3:1359125 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[2302774.579303] Not tainted 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8_4.x86_64 #1
[2302774.579657] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[2302774.580006] kworker/10:3 D 0 1359125 2 0x80004080
[2302774.580085] Workqueue: events_freezable vmballoon_work [vmw_balloon]
[2302774.580088] Call Trace:
[2302774.580203] __schedule+0x2c4/0x700
[2302774.580977] ? xfs_trans_del_item+0x1b/0x40 [xfs]
[2302774.581051] ? xfs_inode_item_release+0x30/0x30 [xfs]
[2302774.581055] schedule+0x38/0xa0
[2302774.581060] schedule_timeout+0x246/0x2f0
[2302774.581173] ? __wait_rcu_gp+0x112/0x140
[2302774.581177] wait_for_completion+0x97/0x100
[2302774.581231] vmci_doorbell_destroy+0x98/0xd0 [vmw_vmci]
[2302774.581259] vmballoon_vmci_cleanup+0x44/0x60 [vmw_balloon]
[2302774.581271] vmballoon_work+0xd0/0x722 [vmw_balloon]
[2302774.581314] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[2302774.581341] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[2302774.581344] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[2302774.581347] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[2302774.581349] kthread+0x116/0x130
[2302774.581369] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[2302774.581373] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- VMware RHEL guest
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