I am having problem of sudden freeze and have to hard shutdown every once in a while


Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: landlock: Up and running.

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: smpboot: CPU0: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U (family: 0x6, model: 0x9a, stepping: 0x4)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Performance Events: XSAVE Architectural LBR, PEBS fmt4+-baseline,  AnyThread deprecated, Alderlake Hybri>

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: core: cpu\_core PMU driver:

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... version:                5

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... bit width:              48

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... generic registers:      8

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... max period:             00007fffffffffff

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... fixed-purpose events:   4

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... event mask:             0001000f000000ff

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: signal: max sigframe size: 3632

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Estimated ratio of average max frequency by base frequency (times 1024): 1614

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: rcu:         Max phase no-delay instances is 400.

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Timer migration: 2 hierarchy levels; 8 children per group; 2 crossnode level

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: smpboot: x86: Booting SMP configuration:

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: .... node  #0, CPUs:        #2  #4  #5  #6  #7  #8  #9 #10 #11

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU4: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: core: cpu\_atom PMU driver: PEBS-via-PT

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... version:                5

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... bit width:              48

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... generic registers:      6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... max period:             00007fffffffffff

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... fixed-purpose events:   3

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ... event mask:             000000070000003f

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU5: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU6: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU7: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU8: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU9: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU10: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 2 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 3 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 4 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 5 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: \[Firmware Bug\]: CPU11: Topology domain 6 shift 7 != 6

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel:   #1  #3

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: smp: Brought up 1 node, 12 CPUs

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: smpboot: Total of 12 processors activated (62668.80 BogoMIPS)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: Memory: 11868016K/12280272K available (22528K kernel code, 4427K rwdata, 16768K rodata, 4876K init, 4732>

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: devtmpfs: initialized

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: x86/mm: Memory block size: 128MB

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: ACPI: PM: Registering ACPI NVS region \[mem 0x40a7f000-0x43a2efff\] (50003968 bytes)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max\_cycles: 0xffffffff, max\_idle\_ns: 1911260446275000 ns

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: futex hash table entries: 4096 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: PM: RTC time: 10:21:19, date: 2024-12-23

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: NET: Registered PF\_NETLINK/PF\_ROUTE protocol family

Dec 23 16:06:20 faizu kernel: DMA: preallocated 2048 KiB GFP\_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations

while journalctl -b it says frimware bug cpux: topology domain shift something for more info

That [BUG] statement in your logs is related to the topology patches not (from my reading) playing nice when you have Intel with P/E cores.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87wmna6y0l.ffs@tglx/
But that is not necessarily the cause for your lockup, because you run 6.12 and that error is reported ~ 6.8-9.
Updating intelfirmware can perhaps help? Does the lockup happen directly after boot or after activity?

It happens after someactivities causing spike in cpu

From 218879 – archlinux kernel: [Firmware Bug]: CPU4: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6, it suggests the cause being a firmware bug, assuming your issue is the same. You can try perhaps with the latest intel firmware for your cpu?
E.g. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-update-intel-microcode-firmware-linux/
But be very careful, as the wrong firmware or the installation can cause issues as well.