Hikey with spinning workqueue

General
#1

With this kernel

Linux version 3.18.0-linaro-hikey (buildslave@x86-64-07) (gcc version 4.9.2 20140904 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.9-2014.09 - Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 11 04:08:20 UTC 2015

Hikey always shows a load of >= 1.0 in top, with a kernel worker at 100% CPU. And using the kernel tracing, also shows him spinning in and out of the workqueue

 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.917802: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.927257: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.936712: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.946167: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.955622: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.965077: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50
 kworker/7:1-364   [007] d..2   135.974532: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffffffc034b6fe50

Do we know what this is related to (or is it fixed with a later kernel?)

#2

Hi,

Thank you for reporting the symptom.
I checked the CPU usage with the release 15.06 Debian and the issue is resolved.

Thanks,