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authorchai wen <chaiw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>2014-10-09 15:25:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:25:48 -0400
commitb1a8de1f534337b398c7778578a56ec4f018cb27 (patch)
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parentf775da2fc2a8e42aa49eddbf5186ac3df8961a71 (diff)
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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.c18
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)