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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2005-09-06 15:16:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:17 -0700
commit8446f1d391f3d27e6bf9c43d4cbcdac0ca720417 (patch)
tree738853af877c9a391b4f2db467e7f90c6e2e38ed /lib
parent4732efbeb997189d9f9b04708dc26bf8613ed721 (diff)
[PATCH] detect soft lockups
This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 299f7f3b5b0..3754c9a8f5c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
13 => 8 KB
12 => 4 KB
+config DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
+ bool "Detect Soft Lockups"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default y
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
+ which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
+ mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
+ chance to run.
+
+ When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the
+ current stack trace (which you should report), but the
+ system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible
+ overhead.
+
+ (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that
+ can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that
+ support it.)
+
config SCHEDSTATS
bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS