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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel bad scheduling from idle thread
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:39:55
Message-Id: 29166847.JbzLGc95H0@eve
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kernel bad scheduling from idle thread by John Covici
1 On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 9:26:08 AM CEST John Covici wrote:
2 > Hi. I am getting a very bad problem on my new kernel that I did after
3 > my last update. It gave me the following sequence over and over for a
4 > while, and then stopped with the messages, but the system crashed. I
5 > then went back to my old kernel which had been working for more than a
6 > month and got a couple of the same traces, but I hope its stopped, so
7 > I can write this message. A google search finds nothing relevant.
8 >
9 > Here is what I get:
10 >
11 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: bad: scheduling from the idle
12 > thread!
13 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5
14 > Tainted: P W O 5.4.69-gentoo #1
15 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro Super
16 > Server/X11SCA-W, BIOS 1.2 12/05/2019
17 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: Call Trace:
18 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: dump_stack+0x71/0x98
19 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: dequeue_task_idle+0x1f/0x28
20 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: __schedule+0x167/0x5d6
21 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: schedule_idle+0x2a/0x33
22 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: do_idle+0x1d0/0x1f2
23 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: cpu_startup_entry+0x1d/0x1f
24 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: start_secondary+0x17b/0x198
25 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0
26 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: bad: scheduling from the idle
27 > thread!
28 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5
29 > Tainted: P W O 5.4.69-gentoo #1
30 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro Super
31 > Server/X11SCA-W, BIOS 1.2 12/05/2019
32 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: Call Trace:
33 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: dump_stack+0x71/0x98
34 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: dequeue_task_idle+0x1f/0x28
35 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: __schedule+0x167/0x5d6
36 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: schedule_idle+0x2a/0x33
37 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: do_idle+0x1d0/0x1f2
38 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: cpu_startup_entry+0x1d/0x1f
39 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: start_secondary+0x17b/0x198
40 > Oct 13 02:34:40 ccs.covici.com kernel: secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0
41 >
42 >
43 > How would I even be able to find out what is happening here?
44 >
45 > Any thoughts appreciated.
46
47 Which kernel versions have you tried?
48 And which additional kernel modules have you added?
49
50 I myself am using 5.4.66 as previous versions were causing kernel panics.
51
52 --
53 Joost

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