[OpenAFS] OpenAFS client softlockup on highly concurrential file-system patterns (100% CPU in kernel mode)

Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.craciun@gmail.com
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:37:17 +0200


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:38 PM Ciprian Dorin Craciun
<ciprian.craciun@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the following link you can find an extract of `dmesg` after the
> sysrq trigger.
>
>   https://scratchpad.volution.ro/ciprian/f89fc32a0bbd0ae6d6f3edbbc3ee111c/b9c3bc4f795bbe9e7eaca93b0a57bea0.txt


I forgot to mention that in this case the CPU didn't go up to 100%, in
fact it was quite "quiet".  (The 100% CPU seems to happen only after a
process "blocks" and I try to `SIGTERM` or `SIGKILL` it.)

Ciprian.