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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2017-09-12 21:37:03 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-14 11:41:04 +0200
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watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Remove broken self disable on failure
The self disabling feature is broken vs. CPU hotplug locking: CPU 0 CPU 1 cpus_write_lock(); cpu_up(1) wait_for_completion() .... unpark_watchdog() ->unpark() perf_event_create() <- fails watchdog_enable &= ~NMI_WATCHDOG; .... cpus_write_unlock(); CPU 2 cpus_write_lock() cpu_down(2) wait_for_completion() wakeup(watchdog); watchdog() if (!(watchdog_enable & NMI_WATCHDOG)) watchdog_nmi_disable() perf_event_disable() .... cpus_read_lock(); stop_smpboot_threads() park_watchdog(); wait_for_completion(watchdog->parked); Result: End of hotplug and instantaneous full lockup of the machine. There is a similar problem with disabling the watchdog via the user space interface as the sysctl function fiddles with watchdog_enable directly. It's very debatable whether this is required at all. If the watchdog works nicely on N CPUs and it fails to enable on the N + 1 CPU either during hotplug or because the user space interface disabled it via sysctl cpumask and then some perf user grabbed the counter which is then unavailable for the watchdog when the sysctl cpumask gets changed back. There is no real justification for this. One of the reasons WHY this is done is the utter stupidity of the init code of the perf NMI watchdog. Instead of checking upfront at boot whether PERF is available and functional at all, it just does this check at run time over and over when user space fiddles with the sysctl. That's broken beyond repair along with the idiotic error code dependent warn level printks and the even more silly printk rate limiting. If the init code checks whether perf works at boot time, then this mess can be more or less avoided completely. Perf does not come magically into life at runtime. Brain usage while coding is overrated. Remove the cruft and add a temporary safe guard which gets removed later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194146.806708429@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 1c185d9dd468..af000956286c 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -485,21 +485,6 @@ static void watchdog(unsigned int cpu)
__this_cpu_write(soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt,
__this_cpu_read(hrtimer_interrupts));
__touch_watchdog();
-
- /*
- * watchdog_nmi_enable() clears the NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED bit in the
- * failure path. Check for failures that can occur asynchronously -
- * for example, when CPUs are on-lined - and shut down the hardware
- * perf event on each CPU accordingly.
- *
- * The only non-obvious place this bit can be cleared is through
- * watchdog_nmi_enable(), so a pr_info() is placed there. Placing a
- * pr_info here would be too noisy as it would result in a message
- * every few seconds if the hardlockup was disabled but the softlockup
- * enabled.
- */
- if (!(watchdog_enabled & NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED))
- watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu);
}
static struct smp_hotplug_thread watchdog_threads = {