Soft lockup in collapse_huge_page() → __flush_icache_range() of khugepaged on AArch64
Issue
An AArch64 system experiences soft lockups in __flush_icache_range() while performing operations on huge pages.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
- HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 with firmware version prior to
1.60-03-07-2024- Ampere Altra CPU with Arm Neoverse-N1 cores, versions prior to
r4p0
- Ampere Altra CPU with Arm Neoverse-N1 cores, versions prior to
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