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2012-06-14watchdog: Quiet down the boot messagesDon Zickus
A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog is during boot-up especially with its expected failure cases (like virt and bios resource contention). This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing for the end user. What I did is print the message for cpu0 and save it for future comparisons. If future cpus have an identical message as cpu0, then don't print the redundant info. However, if a future cpu has a different message, happily print that loudly. Before the change, you would see something like: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #2 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #3 Ok. NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Brought up 4 CPUs Total of 4 processors activated (22607.24 BogoMIPS). After the change, it is simplified to: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Ok. Brought up 4 CPUs V2: little changes based on Joe Perches' feedback V3: printk cleanup based on Ingo's feedback; checkpatch fix V4: keep printk as one long line V5: Ingo fix ups Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: nzimmer@sgi.com Cc: joe@perches.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339594548-17227-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-08watchdog: add check for suspended vm in softlockup detectorEric B Munson
A suspended VM can cause spurious soft lockup warnings. To avoid these, the watchdog now checks if the kernel knows it was stopped by the host and skips the warning if so. When the watchdog is reset successfully, clear the guest paused flag. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-23kernel/watchdog.c: add comment to watchdog() exit pathAndrew Morton
Revelation from Peter. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23kernel/watchdog.c: convert to pr_foo()Andrew Morton
It fixes some 80-col wordwrappings and adds some consistency. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23watchdog: make sure the watchdog thread gets CPU on loaded systemMichal Hocko
If the system is loaded while hotplugging a CPU we might end up with a bogus hardlockup detection. This has been seen during LTP pounder test executed in parallel with hotplug test. The main problem is that enable_watchdog (called when CPU is brought up) registers perf event which periodically checks per-cpu counter (hrtimer_interrupts), updated from a hrtimer callback, but the hrtimer is fired from the kernel thread. This means that while we already do check for the hard lockup the kernel thread might be sitting on the runqueue with zillions of tasks so there is nobody to update the value we rely on and so we KABOOM. Let's fix this by boosting the watchdog thread priority before we wake it up rather than when it's already running. This still doesn't handle a case where we have the same amount of high prio FIFO tasks but that doesn't seem to be common. The current implementation doesn't handle that case anyway so this is not worse at least. Unfortunately, we cannot start perf counter from the watchdog thread because we could miss a real lock up and also we cannot start the hrtimer watchdog_enable because we there is no way (at least I don't know any) to start a hrtimer from a different CPU. [dzickus@redhat.com: fix compile issue with param] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-11watchdog: Fix code/comments mismatchesFernando Luis Vázquez Cao
Reflect the change in the soft and hard lockup thresholds and their relation to the frequency of the hrtimer and NMI events in the code comments. While at it, remove references to files that do not exist anymore. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328827342-6253-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-26bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumpsPrarit Bhargava
rsyslog will display KERN_EMERG messages on a connected terminal. However, these messages are useless/undecipherable for a general user. For example, after a softlockup we get: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Stack: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 14:18:06 ... kernel:Code: ff ff a8 08 75 25 31 d2 48 8d 86 38 e0 ff ff 48 89 d1 0f 01 c8 0f ae f0 48 8b 86 38 e0 ff ff a8 08 75 08 b1 01 4c 89 e0 0f 01 c9 <e8> ea 69 dd ff 4c 29 e8 48 89 c7 e8 0f bc da ff 49 89 c4 49 89 This happens because the printk levels for these messages are incorrect. Only an informational message should be displayed on a terminal. I modified the printk levels for various messages in the kernel and tested the output by using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c kernel modules (ie, softlockups, panics, hard lockups, etc.) and confirmed that the console output was still the same and that the output to the terminals was correct. For example, in the case of a softlockup we now see the much more informative: Message from syslogd@intel-s3e37-04 at Jan 25 10:18:06 ... BUG: soft lockup - CPU4 stuck for 60s! instead of the above confusing messages. AFAICT, the messages no longer have to be KERN_EMERG. In the most important case of a panic we set console_verbose(). As for the other less severe cases the correct data is output to the console and /var/log/messages. Successfully tested by me using the drivers/misc/lkdtm.c module. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327586134-11926-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-31watchdog: move watchdog_*_all_cpus under CONFIG_SYSCTLVasily Averin
Fix compilation warnings for CONFIG_SYSCTL=n: fixed compilation warnings in case of disabled CONFIG_SYSCTL kernel/watchdog.c:483:13: warning: `watchdog_enable_all_cpus' defined but not used kernel/watchdog.c:500:13: warning: `watchdog_disable_all_cpus' defined but not used these functions are static and are used only in sysctl handler, so move them inside #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL too Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-18watchdog: Drop FIFO policy in exit pathThomas Gleixner
When the watchdog thread exits it runs through the exit path with FIFO priority. There is no point in doing so. Switch back to SCHED_NORMAL before exiting. Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121337461.2723@ionos Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14watchdog: Make the kthreads NUMA affineEric Dumazet
Watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312394344-18815-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-14perf, x86: P4 PMU - Introduce event alias featureCyrill Gorcunov
Instead of hw_nmi_watchdog_set_attr() weak function and appropriate x86_pmu::hw_watchdog_set_attr() call we introduce even alias mechanism which allow us to drop this routines completely and isolate quirks of Netburst architecture inside P4 PMU code only. The main idea remains the same though -- to allow nmi-watchdog and perf top run simultaneously. Note the aliasing mechanism applies to generic PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES event only because arbitrary event (say passed as RAW initially) might have some additional bits set inside ESCR register changing the behaviour of event and we can't guarantee anymore that alias event will give the same result. P.S. Thanks a huge to Don and Steven for for testing and early review. Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110708201712.GS23657@sun Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-01perf: Add context field to perf_eventAvi Kivity
The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interfacePeter Zijlstra
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the resulting interrupt do the wakeup. For the various event classes: - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from the PMI-tail (ARM etc.) - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context. - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot perform wakeups, and hence need 0. As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented). The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a bunch of conditionals in fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in a sake of nmi-watchdog on P4Cyrill Gorcunov
Due to restriction and specifics of Netburst PMU we need a separated event for NMI watchdog. In particular every Netburst event consumes not just a counter and a config register, but also an additional ESCR register. Since ESCR registers are grouped upon counters (i.e. if ESCR is occupied for some event there is no room for another event to enter until its released) we need to pick up the "least" used ESCR (or the most available one) for nmi-watchdog purposes -- so MSR_P4_CRU_ESCR2/3 was chosen. With this patch nmi-watchdog and perf top should be able to run simultaneously. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623124918.GC13050@sun Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-24watchdog: Fix non-standard prototype of get_softlockup_thresh()Ingo Molnar
This build warning slipped through: kernel/watchdog.c:102: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype As reported by Stephen Rothwell. Also address an unused variable warning that GCC 4.6.0 reports: we cannot do anything about failed watchdog ops during CPU hotplug (it's not serious enough to return an error from the notifier), so ignore them. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110524134129.8da27016.sfr@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based ↵Mandeep Singh Baines
on watchdog_thresh Before the conversion of the NMI watchdog to perf event, the watchdog timeout was 5 seconds. Now it is 60 seconds. For my particular application, netbooks, 5 seconds was a better timeout. With a short timeout, we catch faults earlier and are able to send back a panic. With a 60 second timeout, the user is unlikely to wait and will instead hit the power button, causing us to lose the panic info. This change configures the NMI period to watchdog_thresh and sets the softlockup_thresh to watchdog_thresh * 2. In addition, watchdog_thresh was reduced to 10 seconds as suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zeroMandeep Singh Baines
This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessaryMandeep Singh Baines
Don't take any action on an unsuccessful write to /proc. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-2-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period()Mandeep Singh Baines
In get_sample_period(), softlockup_thresh is integer divided by 5 before the multiplication by NSEC_PER_SEC. This results in softlockup_thresh being rounded down to the nearest integer multiple of 5. For example, a softlockup_thresh of 4 rounds down to 0. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28kernel/watchdog.c: disable nmi perf event in the error path of enabling watchdogHillf Danton
In corner cases where softlockup watchdog is not setup successfully, the relevant nmi perf event for hardlockup watchdog could be disabled, then the status of the underlying hardware remains unchanged. Also, if the kthread doesn't start then the hrtimer won't run and the hardlockup detector will falsely fire. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22kernel/watchdog.c: always return NOTIFY_OK during cpu up/down eventsDon Zickus
This patch addresses a couple of problems. One was the case when the hardlockup failed to start, it also failed to start the softlockup. There were valid cases when the hardlockup shouldn't start and that shouldn't block the softlockup (no lapic, bios controls perf counters). The second problem was when the hardlockup failed to start on boxes (from a no lapic or bios controlled perf counter case), it reported failure to the cpu notifier chain. This blocked the notifier from continuing to start other more critical pieces of cpu bring-up (in our case based on a 2.6.32 fork, it was the mce). As a result, during soft cpu online/offline testing, the system would panic when a cpu was offlined because the cpu notifier would succeed in processing a watchdog disable cpu event and would panic in the mce case as a result of un-initialized variables from a never executed cpu up event. I realized the hardlockup/softlockup cases are really just debugging aids and should never impede the progress of a cpu up/down event. Therefore I modified the code to always return NOTIFY_OK and instead rely on printks to inform the user of problems. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by defaultDon Zickus
When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-10watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messagesDon Zickus
During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it complains very loudly. Some failures should be expected under certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use. Tone those error messages down a bit. Keep the rest at a high level. Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctlMarcin Slusarz
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> [ add {}'s to fix a warning ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31watchdog: Fix sysctl consistencyMarcin Slusarz
If it was not possible to enable watchdog for any cpu, switch watchdog_enabled back to 0, because it's visible via kernel.watchdog sysctl. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-31watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logicMarcin Slusarz
Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of watchdog threads AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer. As hrtimers are initialized only at boot it's not possible to enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog threads started to eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash. Additionally, even if these threads would start properly, watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so you couldn't disable watchdog. To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already existing watchdog_enabled variable. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> [ removed another no_watchdog instance ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits) gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends connector: Use this_cpu operations xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops random: Use this_cpu_inc_return fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return ... Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c} as per Tejun.
2011-01-06Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits) sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick() printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group() sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task() mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax() sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON cpu: Remove unused variable sched: Fix UP build breakage sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load() ...
2011-01-05Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Add the final .37 tree. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-03watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentationBen Hutchings
The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...' does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the watchdog. It also currently prints the error value as a pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR(). Fix that. Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel parameter to associate it with this message. Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37.x and later LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-17core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.Christoph Lameter
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the correct per cpu instance. However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read() cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through segment prefixes). Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var where the address of the variable is not used. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-10x86, NMI: Add back unknown_nmi_panic and nmi_watchdog sysctlsDon Zickus
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file. Because the old nmi watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost. This re-adds it. Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its documentation updated accordingly. Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detectorPeter Zijlstra
The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot, some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall). The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall() and expects the hardware pmu to be present. Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit initcall right after that. Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: davem <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc2' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Move to a .37-rc base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-05watchdog: Fix section mismatch and potential undefined behavior.David Daney
Commit d9ca07a05ce1 ("watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdog") introduces a section mismatch. Now that we reference no_watchdog from non-__init code it can no longer be __initdata. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-23sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callersKOSAKI Motohiro
Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are using fixed parameters and can be converted to static. It reduces runtime memory use a little. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-21Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits) tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery perf: Optimize sw events perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks jump_label: Add atomic_t interface jump_label: Use more consistent naming perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation perf: Find task before event alloc perf: Fix task refcount bugs perf: Fix group moving irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in() perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers ...
2010-10-12Merge branch 'linus' into core/lockingThomas Gleixner
Reason: Pull in the semaphore related changes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-09-15perf events: Clean up pid passingMatt Helsley
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdogStephane Eranian
In case you boot with the watchdog disabled, i.e., nowatchdog, then, if you try to disable it via /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog, you get a kernel crash. The reason is that you are trying to cancel a hrtimer which has never been initialized. This patch fixes this by skipping execution of watchdog_disable_all_cpus() when the watchdog is marked disabled from boot. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4c8f7a23.cae9d80a.2c11.0bb4@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up pending fixes before applying dependent new changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-01lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semanticsDon Zickus
During my rewrite, the semantics of touch_nmi_watchdog and touch_softlockup_watchdog changed enough to break some drivers (mostly over preemptable regions). These are cases where long delays on one CPU (due to print_delay for example) can cause long delays on other CPUs - so we must 'touch' the nmi_watchdog flag of those other CPUs as well. This change brings those touch_*_watchdog() functions back in line with to how they used to work. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1283310009-22168-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-01lockup_detector: Remove unused panic_notifierAkinobu Mita
The panic notifer in lockup_detector just set did_panic to 1. But did_panic is not used anywhere so we can just remove it. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1283310009-22168-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-01lockup_detector: Convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno valueAkinobu Mita
By the commit e6bde73b07edeb703d4c89c1daabc09c303de11f ("cpu-hotplug: return better errno on cpu hotplug failure"), the cpu notifier can return encapsulate errno value, resulting in more meaningful error codes for CPU hotplug failures. This converts the cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value for the lockup_detector as well. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1283310009-22168-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-23watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdogPeter Zijlstra
Stephane reported that when the machine locks up, the regular ticks, which are responsible to resetting the throttle count, stop too. Hence the NMI watchdog can end up being throttled before it reports on the locked up state, and we end up being sad.. Cure this by having the watchdog overflow reset its own throttle count. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1282215916.1926.4696.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-20lockup_detector: Make callback function staticLin Ming
watchdog_overflow_callback() is only used in kernel/watchdog.c. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1282273431.16443.32.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-07kernel/watchdog: Initialize 'result'Kulikov Vasiliy
Variable on the stack is not initialized to zero, do it explicitly. This bug was found by a compiler warning: kernel/watchdog.c:463: warning: 'result' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1278316854-28442-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-19lockup_detector: Convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var for readabilityDon Zickus
Just a bunch of conversions as suggested by Frederic W. __get_cpu_var() provides preemption disabled checks. Plus it gives more readability as it makes it obvious we are dealing locally now with these vars. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1274133966-18415-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-16lockup_detector: Cross arch compile fixesDon Zickus
Combining the softlockup and hardlockup code causes watchdog.c to build even without the hardlockup detection support. So if an arch, that has the previous and the new nmi watchdog implementations cohabiting, wants to know if the generic one is in use, CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR is not a reliable check. We need to use CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR instead. Fixes: kernel/built-in.o: In function `touch_nmi_watchdog': (.text+0x449bc): multiple definition of `touch_nmi_watchdog' arch/sparc/kernel/built-in.o:(.text+0x11b28): first defined here Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100514151121.GR15159@redhat.com> [ use CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR instead of CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>