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authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>2007-10-16 23:26:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:47 -0700
commitc4f3b63fe15b4629aa1ec163c95ab30423d0f76a (patch)
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softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter
Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings. This is useful for debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify possible softlockups earlier. This patch: 1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s (Higher value to disable false positives) 2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"] Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Acked-by: 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')
-rw-r--r--kernel/softlockup.c7
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c33
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softlockup.c b/kernel/softlockup.c
index 72c2561ff5f8..edeeef3a6a32 100644
--- a/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ b/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, print_timestamp);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, watchdog_task);
static int did_panic;
+int softlockup_thresh = 10;
static int
softlock_panic(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, void *ptr)
@@ -104,13 +105,15 @@ void softlockup_tick(void)
wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu));
/* Warn about unreasonable 10+ seconds delays: */
- if (now <= (touch_timestamp + 10))
+ if (now <= (touch_timestamp + softlockup_thresh))
return;
per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) = touch_timestamp;
spin_lock(&print_lock);
- printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#%d!\n", this_cpu);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %lus! [%s:%d]\n",
+ this_cpu, now - touch_timestamp,
+ current->comm, current->pid);
if (regs)
show_regs(regs);
else
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 5e63de0f9ee2..dde3d53e8adc 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ extern int maps_protect;
extern int sysctl_stat_interval;
extern int audit_argv_kb;
+/* Constants used for minimum and maximum */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+static int one = 1;
+static int sixty = 60;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+static int two = 2;
+#endif
+
+static int zero;
+static int one_hundred = 100;
+
/* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */
static int maxolduid = 65535;
static int minolduid;
@@ -711,6 +724,19 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "softlockup_thresh",
+ .data = &softlockup_thresh,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
+ .extra1 = &one,
+ .extra2 = &sixty,
+ },
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
{
.ctl_name = KERN_COMPAT_LOG,
@@ -757,13 +783,6 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};
-/* Constants for minimum and maximum testing in vm_table.
- We use these as one-element integer vectors. */
-static int zero;
-static int two = 2;
-static int one_hundred = 100;
-
-
static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
{
.ctl_name = VM_OVERCOMMIT_MEMORY,