From 7edaeb6841dfb27e362288ab8466ebdc4972e867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:50:13 +0200 Subject: kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes The hardlockup detector on x86 uses a performance counter based on unhalted CPU cycles and a periodic hrtimer. The hrtimer period is about 2/5 of the performance counter period, so the hrtimer should fire 2-3 times before the performance counter NMI fires. The NMI code checks whether the hrtimer fired since the last invocation. If not, it assumess a hard lockup. The calculation of those periods is based on the nominal CPU frequency. Turbo modes increase the CPU clock frequency and therefore shorten the period of the perf/NMI watchdog. With extreme Turbo-modes (3x nominal frequency) the perf/NMI period is shorter than the hrtimer period which leads to false positives. A simple fix would be to shorten the hrtimer period, but that comes with the side effect of more frequent hrtimer and softlockup thread wakeups, which is not desired. Implement a low pass filter, which checks the perf/NMI period against kernel time. If the perf/NMI fires before 4/5 of the watchdog period has elapsed then the event is ignored and postponed to the next perf/NMI. That solves the problem and avoids the overhead of shorter hrtimer periods and more frequent softlockup thread wakeups. Fixes: 58687acba592 ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector") Reported-and-tested-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: babu.moger@oracle.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: atomlin@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150931310.1886@nanos --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 781521b7cf9e..9101bfc85539 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ config X86 select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL + select HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP if X86_64 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if ACPI select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB -- cgit v1.2.1