AWS cloud instances often crash and reboot unexpectedly

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • AWS cloud instances often crash and reboot unexpectedly
[9095237.256200] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffdfe7356722c0
[9095237.261747] IP: [<ffffffffb52706b0>] kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x0/0x30
[9095237.267322] PGD 0 
[9095237.271317] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP 
[9095237.275449] Modules linked in: unix_diag nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache ppdev nfit libnvdimm iosf_mbi parport_pc parport pcspkr i2c_piix4 binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper nvme cryptd ena nvme_core serio_raw sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[9095237.303435] CPU: 63 PID: 42121 Comm: spectre Kdump: loaded Not tainted 3.10.0-1160.90.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[9095237.312321] Hardware name: Amazon EC2 r6i.32xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
[9095237.317545] task: ffff9411730d6300 ti: ffff93f87d92c000 task.ti: ffff93f87d92c000
[9095237.325836] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffb52706b0>]  [<ffffffffb52706b0>] kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x0/0x30
[9095237.334536] RSP: 0000:ffff9472c5dc3f28  EFLAGS: 00010046
[9095237.339250] RAX: ffffffffb52706b0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff9472c5dd5ad8
[9095237.347381] RDX: ffff9472c5dd5a98 RSI: ffff9472c5dd5a58 RDI: ffffffffb5e34a80
[9095237.355549] RBP: ffff9472c5dc3f70 R08: 0000000262da5be0 R09: 000000073a3c0000
[9095237.363718] R10: 00000000000413e1 R11: 0000000262dc5ac8 R12: 002050034e677894
[9095237.371918] R13: ffffffffb5e34a80 R14: ffff9472c5dd59a8 R15: 000000003a0e6156
[9095237.380129] FS:  00002af744910b40(0000) GS:ffff9472c5dc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[9095237.388675] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[9095237.393598] CR2: ffffdfe7356722c0 CR3: 000000b4b563e000 CR4: 00000000007607e0
[9095237.401773] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[9095237.409924] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[9095237.418058] PKRU: 55555554
[9095237.421873] Call Trace:
[9095237.425594]  <IRQ> 
[9095237.426398]  [<ffffffffb530fb82>] ? ktime_get_update_offsets_now+0x52/0x100
[9095237.434562]  [<ffffffffb52d0085>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x85/0x1e0
[9095237.439499]  [<ffffffffb525fa3b>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3b/0x70
[9095237.444676]  [<ffffffffb59ca053>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x43/0x60
[9095237.449775]  [<ffffffffb59c63f2>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x172/0x180
[9095237.454825]  <EOI> 
[9095237.455608] Code: 
[9095237.459185] 8b 3d 99 d9 d9 4a 48 63 ff 48 c1 e7 06 48 03 3d d7 53 fa 00 e8 52 16 00 00 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 66 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <55> 48 89 e5 65 8b 3d 69 d9 d9 4a 48 63 ff 48 c1 e7 06 48 03 3d 
[9095237.476354] RIP  [<ffffffffb52706b0>] kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x0/0x30
[9095237.481435]  RSP <ffff9472c5dc3f28>
[9095237.485515] CR2: ffffdfe7356722c0

Environment

  • Amazon EC2 instances
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.z

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