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| author | chai wen <chaiw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2014-10-09 15:25:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-10-09 22:25:48 -0400 |
| commit | b1a8de1f534337b398c7778578a56ec4f018cb27 (patch) | |
| tree | f703ad9492c640ee415e156506767778c88e3026 /kernel/watchdog.c | |
| parent | f775da2fc2a8e42aa49eddbf5186ac3df8961a71 (diff) | |
softlockup: make detector be aware of task switch of processes hogging cpu
For now, soft lockup detector warns once for each case of process
softlockup. But the thread 'watchdog/n' may not always get the cpu at the
time slot between the task switch of two processes hogging that cpu to
reset soft_watchdog_warn.
An example would be two processes hogging the cpu. Process A causes the
softlockup warning and is killed manually by a user. Process B
immediately becomes the new process hogging the cpu preventing the
softlockup code from resetting the soft_watchdog_warn variable.
This case is a false negative of "warn only once for a process", as there
may be a different process that is going to hog the cpu. Resolve this by
saving/checking the task pointer of the hogging process and use that to
reset soft_watchdog_warn too.
[dzickus@redhat.com: update comment]
Signed-off-by: chai wen <chaiw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index a8d6914030fe..7b223b212683 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, softlockup_touch_sync); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, soft_watchdog_warn); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_task_ptr_saved); #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch); @@ -333,8 +334,22 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) return HRTIMER_RESTART; /* only warn once */ - if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true) + if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true) { + /* + * When multiple processes are causing softlockups the + * softlockup detector only warns on the first one + * because the code relies on a full quiet cycle to + * re-arm. The second process prevents the quiet cycle + * and never gets reported. Use task pointers to detect + * this. + */ + if (__this_cpu_read(softlockup_task_ptr_saved) != + current) { + __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false); + __touch_watchdog(); + } return HRTIMER_RESTART; + } if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) { /* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already @@ -350,6 +365,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n", smp_processor_id(), duration, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current)); + __this_cpu_write(softlockup_task_ptr_saved, current); print_modules(); print_irqtrace_events(current); if (regs) |