kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection

A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.

Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog task,
debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system log.

On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e.  the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user.  Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.

To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which support
NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup reporting.  This
is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain a stack trace.

If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method.  A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.

[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

5 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6eaa9cdb709..f735e99b11f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3124,6 +3124,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
 			Format: <integer>
 
+	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
+			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
+			backtraces on all cpus.
+			Format: <integer>
+
 	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
 			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
 
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 708bb7f1b7e..c14374e7177 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - shmall
 - shmmax                      [ sysv ipc ]
 - shmmni
+- softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace
 - stop-a                      [ SPARC only ]
 - sysrq                       ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt
 - sysctl_writes_strict
@@ -783,6 +784,22 @@ via the /proc/sys interface:
 
 ==============================================================
 
+softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace:
+
+This value controls the soft lockup detector thread's behavior
+when a soft lockup condition is detected as to whether or not
+to gather further debug information. If enabled, each cpu will
+be issued an NMI and instructed to capture stack trace.
+
+This feature is only applicable for architectures which support
+NMI.
+
+0: do nothing. This is the default behavior.
+
+1: on detection capture more debug information.
+
+==============================================================
+
 tainted:
 
 Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted.  Numeric values, which
diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 6a45fb583ff..487d94589b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ int hw_nmi_is_cpu_stuck(struct pt_regs *);
 u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh);
 extern int watchdog_user_enabled;
 extern int watchdog_thresh;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern int sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
+#endif
 struct ctl_table;
 extern int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *, int ,
 			   void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 62e498691b8..da51641b684 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -861,6 +861,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &zero,
 		.extra2		= &one,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	{
+		.procname	= "softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace",
+		.data		= &sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
+		.extra2		= &one,
+	},
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 	{
 		.procname       = "nmi_watchdog",
 		.data           = &watchdog_user_enabled,
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 516203e665f..0e78f08a090 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 int watchdog_user_enabled = 1;
 int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
+int __read_mostly sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
 static int __read_mostly watchdog_running;
 static u64 __read_mostly sample_period;
 
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev);
 #endif
+static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
 
 /* boot commands */
 /*
@@ -95,6 +97,15 @@ static int __init nosoftlockup_setup(char *str)
 }
 __setup("nosoftlockup", nosoftlockup_setup);
 /*  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static int __init softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
+{
+	sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace =
+		!!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
+#endif
 
 /*
  * Hard-lockup warnings should be triggered after just a few seconds. Soft-
@@ -271,6 +282,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 	unsigned long touch_ts = __this_cpu_read(watchdog_touch_ts);
 	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
 	int duration;
+	int softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace = sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
 
 	/* kick the hardlockup detector */
 	watchdog_interrupt_count();
@@ -317,6 +329,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 		if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true)
 			return HRTIMER_RESTART;
 
+		if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
+			/* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already
+			 * engaged in dumping cpu back traces
+			 */
+			if (test_and_set_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn)) {
+				/* Someone else will report us. Let's give up */
+				__this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, true);
+				return HRTIMER_RESTART;
+			}
+		}
+
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
 			smp_processor_id(), duration,
 			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
@@ -327,6 +350,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 		else
 			dump_stack();
 
+		if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) {
+			/* Avoid generating two back traces for current
+			 * given that one is already made above
+			 */
+			trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
+
+			clear_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn);
+			/* Barrier to sync with other cpus */
+			smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
+		}
+
 		if (softlockup_panic)
 			panic("softlockup: hung tasks");
 		__this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, true);