A hard LOCKUP occurs where one CPU is in busy-loop waiting for the acquisition of irq_desc structure's ->lock spinlock

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Issue

  • A hard LOCKUP occurs where one CPU is in busy-loop waiting for the acquisition of irq_desc structure's ->lock spinlock
[4811664.735162] Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
[4811664.735162] CPU: 0 PID: 1745 Comm: irqbalance Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-513.9.1.el8_9.x86_64 #1
[4811664.735163] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[4811664.735163] Call Trace:
[4811664.735163]  <NMI>
[4811664.735164]  dump_stack+0x41/0x60
[4811664.735164]  panic+0xe7/0x2ac
[4811664.735164]  nmi_panic.cold.11+0xc/0xc
[4811664.735164]  watchdog_overflow_callback.cold.7+0x5c/0x70
[4811664.735165]  __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0x100
[4811664.735165]  x86_pmu_handle_irq+0x12f/0x190
[4811664.735165]  amd_pmu_handle_irq+0x46/0xc0
[4811664.735166]  perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2d/0x50
[4811664.735166]  nmi_handle+0x63/0x110
[4811664.735166]  default_do_nmi+0x49/0x110
[4811664.735166]  do_nmi+0x1af/0x220
[4811664.735167]  end_repeat_nmi+0x16/0x69
[4811664.735167] RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x24/0x1c0
[4811664.735167] Code: ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 ba 01 00 00 00 8b 07 85 c0 75 0d f0 0f b1 17 85 c0 75 f2 e9 6e 4d ca 00 f3 90 <eb> e9 81 fe 00 01 00 00 74 44 81 e6 00 ff ff ff 75 71 f0 0f ba 2f
[4811664.735168] RSP: 0018:ffffa85603fcfdf8 EFLAGS: 00000002
[4811664.735169] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000000
[4811664.735169] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff9c46097d44a4
[4811664.735169] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff9c4600400248 R09: ffff9c4600400468
[4811664.735170] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8abe3568 R12: 000000000000003f
[4811664.735170] R13: 000000000000003f R14: ffff9c46097d4400 R15: 00000000ffffffff
[4811664.735170]  ? native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x24/0x1c0
[4811664.735171]  ? native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x24/0x1c0
[4811664.735171]  </NMI>
[4811664.735171]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x34/0x40
[4811664.735172]  show_interrupts+0x10c/0x320
[4811664.735172]  seq_read+0x303/0x420
[4811664.735172]  proc_reg_read+0x39/0x60
[4811664.735172]  vfs_read+0x91/0x150
[4811664.735172]  ksys_read+0x4f/0xb0
[4811664.735173]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1b0
[4811664.735173]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
[4811664.735173] RIP: 0033:0x7f1d3bc07d74
[4811664.735174] Code: ff 77 53 c3 66 90 41 54 49 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 5b 44 f0 ff 4c 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 38 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 97 44 f0 ff 48
[4811664.735174] RSP: 002b:00007ffdef017b70 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
[4811664.735175] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 00007f1d3bc07d74
[4811664.735175] RDX: 0000000000000400 RSI: 0000564b7ba02f80 RDI: 0000000000000006
[4811664.735176] RBP: 0000564b7ba02f80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f1d3cfdff40
[4811664.735176] R10: 0000564b7ba0336d R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000400
[4811664.735177] R13: 00007f1d3bea43a0 R14: 0000000000000013 R15: 0000000000000000

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9.z - kernel-4.18.0-513.9.1.el8_9.x86_64
  • VMware guest

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