Re: soft lockup on Ampere Altra on v6.1.30

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jun 06 2023 - 13:40:38 EST


On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:47:52AM -0700, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> We're currently trying to update the kernel in our distro (Flatcar) from
> v5.15.x to v6.1.x. When testing on Equinix Metal Ampere instances
> (c3.large.arm64) we now get a soft lockup about a minute after boot.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? The splat looks like this, full dmesg is at [1]
> (trying without the attachement this time as LKML detects my mail as spam :/)

You might have better luck asking on the ARM lists, the stable@ list is
for patches to add or other fixes, not generic failures like this one.

Also, why not take a working 6.1.x kernel for this platform (which I
know they are out there) and comparing it to yours?

Good luck!

greg k-h