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What Are All These "Bug: Soft Lockup" Messages About?

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What are all these “Bug: soft lockup” messages about? | Support | SUSE

May 25 07:23:59 XXXXXXX kernel: [13445315.881356] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#16 stuck for 23s

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018705

soft lockup’ is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds without giving other tasks a chance to run.The watchdog daemon will send an non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to all CPUs in the system who, in turn, print the stack traces of their currently running tasks

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018705