andre_r, in MariaDB 10.5.9 there was also a fix of MDEV-24270 where we replaced io_getevents() with a thinner wrapper of the system call to avoid 2 unnecessary wakeups per second. This basically works around a regression that was introduced by an ‘optimization’ in https://pagure.io/libaio/c/7cede5af5adf01ad26155061cc476aad0804d3fc several years ago. That ‘optimization’ would cause a race condition on shutdown in user space, leading to SIGSEGV or similar. But, I would find it hard to believe that the unnecessary wakeups would keep one CPU 100% busy.

It would be interesting to try MariaDB 10.5.8 with the newer musl libc and 10.5.9 with the older libc, to narrow down the culprit.

Thanks for getting back to us andre_r. It appears from your upstream bug that both musl and mariadb have been updated on alpine 3.13/armv7.

At the moments its a bit hard to determine the cause.

We'd need musl MDBF-244, an armv7/armhf/Arm Cortex support in CI, and maybe even a alpine based testing (MDEV-18462) to find this kind of issue prerelease.

Suggestions welcome how to obtain armv7 hardware/cloud infrastructure that can be integrated to a CI infrstructure as a runner (own container based preferable, and not a new dedicated CI framework like drone.io appears to be),
Edit - found https://www.worksonarm.com/

(cross posted in alpine issue)
Just discovered that this issue seems fixed when using the edge repository in alpine 3.13.
A few packages are upgraded in edge, among which:

mariadb (and co) from 10.5.8 to 10.5.9
musl from 1.2.2-r0 to 1.2.2-r2

I'd rather say (but I can't be sure) that musl was the culprit of the bug, as mariadb 10.5.8 used to run fine in a debian/buster container instead of alpine.

Not the OP but since it looks like there is some further data being waited on I thought I'd tried to provide it as I ran across this issue last night as well.

perf.data + perf.report output attached from my setup perf.report perf.data

perf.data is rather raw, it needs the ELF binary to resolve. Can you try `perf report -g --no-children -i ~/perf.data` and/or `objdump -d /usr/bin/mysqld` should give address that we can map to the perf data.

Thanks for trying strace, its looking very much like an endless loop. The gdb of the running process will still be useful if you have it compiled with debug symbols (cflag=-g).