From b1a8de1f534337b398c7778578a56ec4f018cb27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chai wen Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:25:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/watchdog.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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)