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* kernel/watchdog.c: remove preemption restrictions when restarting lockup ↵Don Zickus2014-06-231-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | detector Peter Wu noticed the following splat on his machine when updating /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:965 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: init 3 locks held by init/1: #0: (sb_writers#3){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8117b663>] vfs_write+0x143/0x180 #1: (watchdog_proc_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e02d3>] proc_dowatchdog+0x33/0x110 #2: (cpu_hotplug.lock){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff810589c2>] get_online_cpus+0x32/0x80 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff810e0384>] proc_dowatchdog+0xe4/0x110 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc1-testing #34 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a __might_sleep+0x11d/0x190 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4e/0x1e0 perf_event_alloc+0x55/0x440 perf_event_create_kernel_counter+0x26/0xe0 watchdog_nmi_enable+0x75/0x140 update_timers_all_cpus+0x53/0xa0 proc_dowatchdog+0xe4/0x110 proc_sys_call_handler+0xb3/0xc0 proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20 vfs_write+0xad/0x180 SyS_write+0x49/0xb0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu0): hardware events not enabled What happened is after updating the watchdog_thresh, the lockup detector is restarted to utilize the new value. Part of this process involved disabling preemption. Once preemption was disabled, perf tried to allocate a new event (as part of the restart). This caused the above BUG_ON as you can't sleep with preemption disabled. The preemption restriction seemed agressive as we are not doing anything on that particular cpu, but with all the online cpus (which are protected by the get_online_cpus lock). Remove the restriction and the BUG_ON goes away. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> Tested-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.13+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c:touch_softlockup_watchdog(): use raw_cpu_write()Andrew Morton2014-04-181-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix: BUG: using __this_cpu_write() in preemptible [00000000] code: systemd-udevd/497 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20 CPU: 3 PID: 497 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G W 3.15.0-rc1 #9 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8470p/179B, BIOS 68ICF Ver. F.02 04/27/2012 Call Trace: check_preemption_disabled+0xe1/0xf0 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20 touch_nmi_watchdog+0x28/0x40 Reported-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Tested-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: touch_nmi_watchdog should only touch local cpu not every oneBen Zhang2014-04-031-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I ran into a scenario where while one cpu was stuck and should have panic'd because of the NMI watchdog, it didn't. The reason was another cpu was spewing stack dumps on to the console. Upon investigation, I noticed that when writing to the console and also when dumping the stack, the watchdog is touched. This causes all the cpus to reset their NMI watchdog flags and the 'stuck' cpu just spins forever. This change causes the semantics of touch_nmi_watchdog to be changed slightly. Previously, I accidentally changed the semantics and we noticed there was a codepath in which touch_nmi_watchdog could be touched from a preemtible area. That caused a BUG() to happen when CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT was enabled. I believe it was the acpi code. My attempt here re-introduces the change to have the touch_nmi_watchdog() code only touch the local cpu instead of all of the cpus. But instead of using __get_cpu_var(), I use the __raw_get_cpu_var() version. This avoids the preemption problem. However my reasoning wasn't because I was trying to be lazy. Instead I rationalized it as, well if preemption is enabled then interrupts should be enabled to and the NMI watchdog will have no reason to trigger. So it won't matter if the wrong cpu is touched because the percpu interrupt counters the NMI watchdog uses should still be incrementing. Don said: : I'm ok with this patch, though it does alter the behaviour of how : touch_nmi_watchdog works. For the most part I don't think most callers : need to touch all of the watchdogs (on each cpu). Perhaps a corner case : will pop up (the scheduler?? to mimic touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() ). : : But this does address an issue where if a system is locked up and one cpu : is spewing out useful debug messages (or error messages), the hard lockup : will fail to go off. We have seen this on RHEL also. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Zhang <benzh@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Simplify a little the IPI callFrederic Weisbecker2014-02-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to remotely restart the watchdog hrtimer, update_timers() allocates a csd on the stack and pass it to __smp_call_function_single(). There is no partcular need, however, for a specific csd here. Lets simplify that a little by calling smp_call_function_single() which can already take care of the csd allocation by itself. Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properlyMichal Hocko2013-09-241-3/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | watchdog_tresh controls how often nmi perf event counter checks per-cpu hrtimer_interrupts counter and blows up if the counter hasn't changed since the last check. The counter is updated by per-cpu watchdog_hrtimer hrtimer which is scheduled with 2/5 watchdog_thresh period which guarantees that hrtimer is scheduled 2 times per the main period. Both hrtimer and perf event are started together when the watchdog is enabled. So far so good. But... But what happens when watchdog_thresh is updated from sysctl handler? proc_dowatchdog will set a new sampling period and hrtimer callback (watchdog_timer_fn) will use the new value in the next round. The problem, however, is that nobody tells the perf event that the sampling period has changed so it is ticking with the period configured when it has been set up. This might result in an ear ripping dissonance between perf and hrtimer parts if the watchdog_thresh is increased. And even worse it might lead to KABOOM if the watchdog is configured to panic on such a spurious lockup. This patch fixes the issue by updating both nmi perf even counter and hrtimers if the threshold value has changed. The nmi one is disabled and then reinitialized from scratch. This has an unpleasant side effect that the allocation of the new event might fail theoretically so the hard lockup detector would be disabled for such cpus. On the other hand such a memory allocation failure is very unlikely because the original event is deallocated right before. It would be much nicer if we just changed perf event period but there doesn't seem to be any API to do that right now. It is also unfortunate that perf_event_alloc uses GFP_KERNEL allocation unconditionally so we cannot use on_each_cpu() and do the same thing from the per-cpu context. The update from the current CPU should be safe because perf_event_disable removes the event atomically before it clears the per-cpu watchdog_ev so it cannot change anything under running handler feet. The hrtimer is simply restarted (thanks to Don Zickus who has pointed this out) if it is queued because we cannot rely it will fire&adopt to the new sampling period before a new nmi event triggers (when the treshold is decreased). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: the UP version of __smp_call_function_single ended up in the wrong place] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: update watchdog attributes atomicallyMichal Hocko2013-09-241-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | proc_dowatchdog doesn't synchronize multiple callers which might lead to confusion when two parallel callers might confuse watchdog_enable_all_cpus resp watchdog_disable_all_cpus (eg watchdog gets enabled even if watchdog_thresh was set to 0 already). This patch adds a local mutex which synchronizes callers to the sysctl handler. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Make it work under full dynticksFrederic Weisbecker2013-07-301-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A perf event can be used without forcing the tick to stay alive if it doesn't use a frequency but a sample period and if it doesn't throttle (raise storm of events). Since the lockup detector neither use a perf event frequency nor should ever throttle due to its high period, it can now run concurrently with the full dynticks feature. So remove the hack that disabled the watchdog. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anish Singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374539466-4799-9-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticksFrederic Weisbecker2013-06-201-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the watchdog runs, it prevents the full dynticks CPUs from stopping their tick because the hard lockup detector uses perf events internally, which in turn rely on the periodic tick. Since this is a rather confusing behaviour that is not easy to track down and identify for those who want to test CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, let's default disable the watchdog on boot time when full dynticks is enabled. The user can still enable it later on runtime using proc or sysctl. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anish Singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
* watchdog: Rename confusing state variableFrederic Weisbecker2013-06-201-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have two very conflicting state variable names in the watchdog: * watchdog_enabled: This one reflects the user interface. It's set to 1 by default and can be overriden with boot options or sysctl/procfs interface. * watchdog_disabled: This is the internal toggle state that tells if watchdog threads, timers and NMI events are currently running or not. This state mostly depends on the user settings. It's a convenient state latch. Now we really need to find clearer names because those are just too confusing to encourage deep review. watchdog_enabled now becomes watchdog_user_enabled to reflect its purpose as an interface. watchdog_disabled becomes watchdog_running to suggest its role as a pure internal state. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anish Singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
* watchdog: Register / unregister watchdog kthreads on sysctl controlFrederic Weisbecker2013-06-201-40/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The user activation/deactivation of the watchdog through boot parameters or systcl is currently implemented with a dance involving kthreads parking and unparking methods: the threads are unconditionally registered on boot and they park as soon as the user want the watchdog to be disabled. This method involves a few noisy details to handle though: the watchdog kthreads may be unparked anytime due to hotplug operations, after which the watchdog internals have to decide to park again if it is user-disabled. As a result the setup() and unpark() methods need to be able to request a reparking. This is not currently supported in the kthread infrastructure so this piece of the watchdog code only works halfway. Besides, unparking/reparking the watchdog kthreads consume unnecessary cputime on hotplug operations when those could be simply ignored in the first place. As suggested by Srivatsa, let's instead only register the watchdog threads when they are needed. This way we don't need to think about hotplug operations and we don't burden the CPU onlining when the watchdog is simply disabled. Suggested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anish Singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
* watchdog: Add comments to explain the watchdog_disabled variableanish kumar2013-03-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The watchdog_disabled flag is a bit cryptic. However it's usefulness is multifold. Uses are: 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed. 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in sequence i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong. Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com> [small text cleanups] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: chuansheng.liu@intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363113848-18344-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-02-221-6/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants. The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation to be based on the seqcount infrastructure. The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt locking changes." * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated" generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure seqlock: Remove unused functions ntp: Make ntp_lock raw intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock locking: Various static lock initializer fixes lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp() lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug() locking/stat: Fix a typo
| * watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()Namhyung Kim2013-02-191-6/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The get_timestamp() function is always called with current cpu, thus using local_clock() would be more appropriate and it makes the code shorter and cleaner IMHO. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356576585-28782-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header fileClark Williams2013-02-071-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into new file include/linux/sched/rt.h Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* watchdog: Fix disable/enable regressionBjørn Mork2012-12-191-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 8d4516904b39 ("watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression") causes an oops or hard lockup when doing echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog and the kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog=1 (default) Running laptop-mode-tools and disconnecting/connecting AC power will cause this to trigger, making it a common failure scenario on laptops. Instead of bailing out of watchdog_disable() when !watchdog_enabled we can initialize the hrtimer regardless of watchdog_enabled status. This makes it safe to call watchdog_disable() in the nmi_watchdog=0 case, without the negative effect on the enabled => disabled => enabled case. All these tests pass with this patch: - nmi_watchdog=1 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog - nmi_watchdog=0 echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online - nmi_watchdog=0 echo mem > /sys/power/state Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51661 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7 Cc: Norbert Warmuth <nwarmuth@t-online.de> Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: store the watchdog sample period as a variableChuansheng Liu2012-12-171-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently getting the sample period is always thru a complex calculation: get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5). We can store the sample period as a variable, and set it as __read_mostly type. Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regressionThomas Gleixner2012-12-041-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Norbert reported: "3.7-rc6 booted with nmi_watchdog=0 fails to suspend to RAM or offline CPUs. It's reproducable with a KVM guest and physical system." The reason is that commit bcd951cf(watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructure) missed to take this into account. So the cpu offline code gets stuck in the teardown function because it accesses non initialized data structures. Add a check for watchdog_enabled into that path to cure the issue. Reported-and-tested-by: Norbert Warmuth <nwarmuth@t-online.de> Tested-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1211231033230.2701@ionos Link: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079534 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()Chuansheng Liu2012-11-261-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In get_sample_period(), unsigned long is not enough: watchdog_thresh * 2 * (NSEC_PER_SEC / 5) case1: watchdog_thresh is 10 by default, the sample value will be: 0xEE6B2800 case2: set watchdog_thresh is 20, the sample value will be: 0x1 DCD6 5000 In case2, we need use u64 to express the sample period. Otherwise, changing the threshold thru proc often can not be successful. Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructureThomas Gleixner2012-08-131-174/+89
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.563736676@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Revert "NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume"Rafael J. Wysocki2012-08-081-19/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert commit 45226e9 (NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume) which breaks resume from system suspend on my SH7372 Mackerel board (by causing a NULL pointer dereference to happen) and is generally wrong, because it abuses the CPU hotplug functionality in a shamelessly blatant way. The original issue should be addressed through appropriate syscore resume callback instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resumeSameer Nanda2012-07-301-2/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the suspend/resume path the boot CPU does not go though an offline->online transition. This breaks the NMI detector post-resume since it depends on PMU state that is lost when the system gets suspended. Fix this by forcing a CPU offline->online transition for the lockup detector on the boot CPU during resume. To provide more context, we enable NMI watchdog on Chrome OS. We have seen several reports of systems freezing up completely which indicated that the NMI watchdog was not firing for some reason. Debugging further, we found a simple way of repro'ing system freezes -- issuing the command 'tasket 1 sh -c "echo nmilockup > /proc/breakme"' after the system has been suspended/resumed one or more times. With this patch in place, the system freeze result in panics, as expected. These panics provide a nice stack trace for us to debug the actual issue causing the freeze. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fiddle with code comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make lockup_detector_bootcpu_resume() conditional on CONFIG_SUSPEND] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section errors] Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Quiet down the boot messagesDon Zickus2012-06-141-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog is during boot-up especially with its expected failure cases (like virt and bios resource contention). This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing for the end user. What I did is print the message for cpu0 and save it for future comparisons. If future cpus have an identical message as cpu0, then don't print the redundant info. However, if a future cpu has a different message, happily print that loudly. Before the change, you would see something like: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #2 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #3 Ok. NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Brought up 4 CPUs Total of 4 processors activated (22607.24 BogoMIPS). After the change, it is simplified to: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Ok. Brought up 4 CPUs V2: little changes based on Joe Perches' feedback V3: printk cleanup based on Ingo's feedback; checkpatch fix V4: keep printk as one long line V5: Ingo fix ups Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: nzimmer@sgi.com Cc: joe@perches.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339594548-17227-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* watchdog: add check for suspended vm in softlockup detectorEric B Munson2012-04-081-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | A suspended VM can cause spurious soft lockup warnings. To avoid these, the watchdog now checks if the kernel knows it was stopped by the host and skips the warning if so. When the watchdog is reset successfully, clear the guest paused flag. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* kernel/watchdog.c: add comment to watchdog() exit pathAndrew Morton2012-03-231-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Revelation from Peter. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: convert to pr_foo()Andrew Morton2012-03-231-6/+10
| | | | | | | | | It fixes some 80-col wordwrappings and adds some consistency. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: make sure the watchdog thread gets CPU on loaded systemMichal Hocko2012-03-231-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the system is loaded while hotplugging a CPU we might end up with a bogus hardlockup detection. This has been seen during LTP pounder test executed in parallel with hotplug test. The main problem is that enable_watchdog (called when CPU is brought up) registers perf event which periodically checks per-cpu counter (hrtimer_interrupts), updated from a hrtimer callback, but the hrtimer is fired from the kernel thread. This means that while we already do check for the hard lockup the kernel thread might be sitting on the runqueue with zillions of tasks so there is nobody to update the value we rely on and so we KABOOM. Let's fix this by boosting the watchdog thread priority before we wake it up rather than when it's already running. This still doesn't handle a case where we have the same amount of high prio FIFO tasks but that doesn't seem to be common. The current implementation doesn't handle that case anyway so this is not worse at least. Unfortunately, we cannot start perf counter from the watchdog thread because we could miss a real lock up and also we cannot start the hrtimer watchdog_enable because we there is no way (at least I don't know any) to start a hrtimer from a different CPU. [dzickus@redhat.com: fix compile issue with param] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Fix code/comments mismatchesFernando Luis Vázquez Cao2012-02-111-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Reflect the change in the soft and hard lockup thresholds and their relation to the frequency of the hrtimer and NMI events in the code comments. While at it, remove references to files that do not exist anymore. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328827342-6253-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumpsPrarit Bhargava2012-01-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rsyslog will display KERN_EMERG messages on a connected terminal. However, these messages are useless/undecipherable for a general user. For example, after a softlockup we get: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Stack: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Code: ff ff a8 08 75 25 31 d2 48 8d 86 38 e0 ff ff 48 89 d1 0f 01 c8 0f ae f0 48 8b 86 38 e0 ff ff a8 08 75 08 b1 01 4c 89 e0 0f 01 c9 <e8> ea 69 dd ff 4c 29 e8 48 89 c7 e8 0f bc da ff 49 89 c4 49 89 This happens because the printk levels for these messages are incorrect. Only an informational message should be displayed on a terminal. I modified the printk levels for various messages in the kernel and tested the output by using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c kernel modules (ie, softlockups, panics, hard lockups, etc.) and confirmed that the console output was still the same and that the output to the terminals was correct. For example, in the case of a softlockup we now see the much more informative: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 10:18:06 ... BUG: soft lockup - CPU4 stuck for 60s! instead of the above confusing messages. AFAICT, the messages no longer have to be KERN_EMERG. In the most important case of a panic we set console_verbose(). As for the other less severe cases the correct data is output to the console and /var/log/messages. Successfully tested by me using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c module. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327586134-11926-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: move watchdog_*_all_cpus under CONFIG_SYSCTLVasily Averin2011-10-311-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix compilation warnings for CONFIG_SYSCTL=n: fixed compilation warnings in case of disabled CONFIG_SYSCTL kernel/watchdog.c:483:13: warning: `watchdog_enable_all_cpus' defined but not used kernel/watchdog.c:500:13: warning: `watchdog_disable_all_cpus' defined but not used these functions are static and are used only in sysctl handler, so move them inside #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL too Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: Drop FIFO policy in exit pathThomas Gleixner2011-09-181-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | When the watchdog thread exits it runs through the exit path with FIFO priority. There is no point in doing so. Switch back to SCHED_NORMAL before exiting. Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121337461.2723@ionos Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Make the kthreads NUMA affineEric Dumazet2011-08-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312394344-18815-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf, x86: P4 PMU - Introduce event alias featureCyrill Gorcunov2011-07-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of hw_nmi_watchdog_set_attr() weak function and appropriate x86_pmu::hw_watchdog_set_attr() call we introduce even alias mechanism which allow us to drop this routines completely and isolate quirks of Netburst architecture inside P4 PMU code only. The main idea remains the same though -- to allow nmi-watchdog and perf top run simultaneously. Note the aliasing mechanism applies to generic PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES event only because arbitrary event (say passed as RAW initially) might have some additional bits set inside ESCR register changing the behaviour of event and we can't guarantee anymore that alias event will give the same result. P.S. Thanks a huge to Don and Steven for for testing and early review. Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110708201712.GS23657@sun Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* perf: Add context field to perf_eventAvi Kivity2011-07-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interfacePeter Zijlstra2011-07-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the resulting interrupt do the wakeup. For the various event classes: - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from the PMI-tail (ARM etc.) - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context. - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot perform wakeups, and hence need 0. As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented). The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a bunch of conditionals in fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in a sake of nmi-watchdog on P4Cyrill Gorcunov2011-07-011-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to restriction and specifics of Netburst PMU we need a separated event for NMI watchdog. In particular every Netburst event consumes not just a counter and a config register, but also an additional ESCR register. Since ESCR registers are grouped upon counters (i.e. if ESCR is occupied for some event there is no room for another event to enter until its released) we need to pick up the "least" used ESCR (or the most available one) for nmi-watchdog purposes -- so MSR_P4_CRU_ESCR2/3 was chosen. With this patch nmi-watchdog and perf top should be able to run simultaneously. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623124918.GC13050@sun Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Fix non-standard prototype of get_softlockup_thresh()Ingo Molnar2011-05-241-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This build warning slipped through: kernel/watchdog.c:102: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype As reported by Stephen Rothwell. Also address an unused variable warning that GCC 4.6.0 reports: we cannot do anything about failed watchdog ops during CPU hotplug (it's not serious enough to return an error from the notifier), so ignore them. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110524134129.8da27016.sfr@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based ↵Mandeep Singh Baines2011-05-231-4/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | on watchdog_thresh Before the conversion of the NMI watchdog to perf event, the watchdog timeout was 5 seconds. Now it is 60 seconds. For my particular application, netbooks, 5 seconds was a better timeout. With a short timeout, we catch faults earlier and are able to send back a panic. With a 60 second timeout, the user is unlikely to wait and will instead hit the power button, causing us to lose the panic info. This change configures the NMI period to watchdog_thresh and sets the softlockup_thresh to watchdog_thresh * 2. In addition, watchdog_thresh was reduced to 10 seconds as suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zeroMandeep Singh Baines2011-05-231-16/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessaryMandeep Singh Baines2011-05-231-8/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Don't take any action on an unsuccessful write to /proc. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-2-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period()Mandeep Singh Baines2011-05-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In get_sample_period(), softlockup_thresh is integer divided by 5 before the multiplication by NSEC_PER_SEC. This results in softlockup_thresh being rounded down to the nearest integer multiple of 5. For example, a softlockup_thresh of 4 rounds down to 0. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kernel/watchdog.c: disable nmi perf event in the error path of enabling watchdogHillf Danton2011-04-281-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In corner cases where softlockup watchdog is not setup successfully, the relevant nmi perf event for hardlockup watchdog could be disabled, then the status of the underlying hardware remains unchanged. Also, if the kthread doesn't start then the hrtimer won't run and the hardlockup detector will falsely fire. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: always return NOTIFY_OK during cpu up/down eventsDon Zickus2011-03-221-6/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses a couple of problems. One was the case when the hardlockup failed to start, it also failed to start the softlockup. There were valid cases when the hardlockup shouldn't start and that shouldn't block the softlockup (no lapic, bios controls perf counters). The second problem was when the hardlockup failed to start on boxes (from a no lapic or bios controlled perf counter case), it reported failure to the cpu notifier chain. This blocked the notifier from continuing to start other more critical pieces of cpu bring-up (in our case based on a 2.6.32 fork, it was the mce). As a result, during soft cpu online/offline testing, the system would panic when a cpu was offlined because the cpu notifier would succeed in processing a watchdog disable cpu event and would panic in the mce case as a result of un-initialized variables from a never executed cpu up event. I realized the hardlockup/softlockup cases are really just debugging aids and should never impede the progress of a cpu up/down event. Therefore I modified the code to always return NOTIFY_OK and instead rely on printks to inform the user of problems. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by defaultDon Zickus2011-03-221-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messagesDon Zickus2011-02-101-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it complains very loudly. Some failures should be expected under certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use. Tone those error messages down a bit. Keep the rest at a high level. Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctlMarcin Slusarz2011-01-311-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> [ add {}'s to fix a warning ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Fix sysctl consistencyMarcin Slusarz2011-01-311-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If it was not possible to enable watchdog for any cpu, switch watchdog_enabled back to 0, because it's visible via kernel.watchdog sysctl. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logicMarcin Slusarz2011-01-311-14/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of watchdog threads AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer. As hrtimers are initialized only at boot it's not possible to enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog threads started to eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash. Additionally, even if these threads would start properly, watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so you couldn't disable watchdog. To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already existing watchdog_enabled variable. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> [ removed another no_watchdog instance ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-071-18/+18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits) gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends connector: Use this_cpu operations xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops random: Use this_cpu_inc_return fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return ... Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c} as per Tejun.
| * core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.Christoph Lameter2010-12-171-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the correct per cpu instance. However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read() cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through segment prefixes). Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var where the address of the variable is not used. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-061-1/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits) sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick() printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group() sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task() mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax() sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON cpu: Remove unused variable sched: Fix UP build breakage sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load() ...
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