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McKenney" , Peter Zijlstra , Randy Dunlap , Rasmus Villemoes , Sami Tolvanen , Stefano Stabellini , Vlastimil Babka , Zhaoyang Huang , Zhen Lei , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH] hardlockup: detect hard lockups using secondary (buddy) cpus Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:53:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20230421155255.1.I6bf789d21d0c3d75d382e7e51a804a7a51315f2c@changeid> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.40.0.634.g4ca3ef3211-goog MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230421_155415_335423_C97FDE83 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 39.89 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "Linux-mediatek" Errors-To: linux-mediatek-bounces+linux-mediatek=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org From: Colin Cross Implement a hardlockup detector that can be enabled on SMP systems that don't have an arch provided one or one implemented atop perf by using interrupts on other cpus. Each cpu will use its softlockup hrtimer to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by verifying that a counter is increasing. NOTE: unlike the other hard lockup detectors, the buddy one can't easily provide a backtrace on the CPU that locked up. It relies on some other mechanism in the system to get information about the locked up CPUs. This could be support for NMI backtraces like [1], it could be a mechanism for printing the PC of locked CPUs like [2], or it could be something else. This style of hardlockup detector originated in some downstream Android trees and has been rebased on / carried in ChromeOS trees for quite a long time for use on arm and arm64 boards. Historically on these boards we've leveraged mechanism [2] to get information about hung CPUs, but we could move to [1]. NOTE: the buddy system is not really useful to enable on any architectures that have a better mechanism. On arm64 folks have been trying to get a better mechanism for years and there has even been recent posts of patches adding support [3]. However, nothing about the buddy system is tied to arm64 and several archs (even arm32, where it was originally developed) could find it useful. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419225604.21204-1-dianders@chromium.org [2] https://issuetracker.google.com/172213129 [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220903093415.15850-1-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com/ Signed-off-by: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson --- This patch has been rebased in ChromeOS kernel trees many times, and each time someone had to do work on it they added their Signed-off-by. I've included those here. I've also left the author as Colin Cross since the core code is still his. I'll also note that the CC list is pretty giant, but that's what get_maintainers came up with (plus a few other folks I thought would be interested). As far as I can tell, there's no true MAINTAINER listed for the existing watchdog code. Assuming people don't hate this, maybe it would go through Andrew Morton's tree? include/linux/nmi.h | 18 ++++- kernel/Makefile | 1 + kernel/watchdog.c | 24 ++++-- kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 19 ++++- 5 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h index 048c0b9aa623..35f6c5c2378b 100644 --- a/include/linux/nmi.h +++ b/include/linux/nmi.h @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ extern void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void); extern void touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(void); extern void touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs(void); extern unsigned int softlockup_panic; +DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts); +DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved); extern int lockup_detector_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu); extern int lockup_detector_offline_cpu(unsigned int cpu); @@ -81,14 +83,14 @@ static inline void reset_hung_task_detector(void) { } #define NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED (1 << NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT) #define SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED (1 << SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT) -#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) +#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE) extern void hardlockup_detector_disable(void); extern unsigned int hardlockup_panic; #else static inline void hardlockup_detector_disable(void) {} #endif -#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG) || defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG) || defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE) # define NMI_WATCHDOG_SYSCTL_PERM 0644 #else # define NMI_WATCHDOG_SYSCTL_PERM 0444 @@ -124,6 +126,14 @@ void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu); void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void); +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY_CPU +void buddy_cpu_touch_watchdog(void); +void watchdog_check_hardlockup(void); +#else +static inline void buddy_cpu_touch_watchdog(void) {} +static inline void watchdog_check_hardlockup(void) {} +#endif + /** * touch_nmi_watchdog - restart NMI watchdog timeout. * @@ -134,6 +144,7 @@ void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void); static inline void touch_nmi_watchdog(void) { arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(); + buddy_cpu_touch_watchdog(); touch_softlockup_watchdog(); } @@ -196,8 +207,7 @@ static inline bool trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(int cpu) u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh); #endif -#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP) && \ - defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) +#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP) && defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF) void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period); #else static inline void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period) { } diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index 10ef068f598d..a2054f16f9f4 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FAIL_FUNCTION) += fail_function.o obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB) += debug/ obj-$(CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK) += hung_task.o obj-$(CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR) += watchdog.o +obj-$(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY_CPU) += watchdog_buddy_cpu.o obj-$(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF) += watchdog_hld.o obj-$(CONFIG_SECCOMP) += seccomp.o obj-$(CONFIG_RELAY) += relay.o diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 8e61f21e7e33..1199043689ae 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_mutex); -#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) || defined(CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG) +#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE) || defined(CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG) # define WATCHDOG_DEFAULT (SOFT_WATCHDOG_ENABLED | NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED) # define NMI_WATCHDOG_DEFAULT 1 #else @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int __read_mostly nmi_watchdog_available; struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly; unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask); -#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE # ifdef CONFIG_SMP int __read_mostly sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace; @@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str) } __setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup); -#endif /* CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR */ +#endif /* CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR /* * These functions can be overridden if an architecture implements its @@ -106,6 +108,13 @@ void __weak watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu) hardlockup_detector_perf_disable(); } +#else + +int __weak watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) { return 0; } +void __weak watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu) { return; } + +#endif /* CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR */ + /* Return 0, if a NMI watchdog is available. Error code otherwise */ int __weak __init watchdog_nmi_probe(void) { @@ -179,8 +188,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_touch_ts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_report_ts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, watchdog_hrtimer); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, softlockup_touch_sync); -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts); -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved); +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts); +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved); static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn; static int __init nowatchdog_setup(char *str) @@ -364,6 +373,9 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) /* kick the hardlockup detector */ watchdog_interrupt_count(); + /* test for hardlockups */ + watchdog_check_hardlockup(); + /* kick the softlockup detector */ if (completion_done(this_cpu_ptr(&softlockup_completion))) { reinit_completion(this_cpu_ptr(&softlockup_completion)); @@ -820,7 +832,7 @@ static struct ctl_table watchdog_sysctls[] = { }, #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE { .procname = "hardlockup_panic", .data = &hardlockup_panic, diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c b/kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..db813b00e6ef --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_touch); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn); +static cpumask_t __read_mostly watchdog_cpus; + +static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped; + +int __init watchdog_nmi_probe(void) +{ + return 0; +} + +notrace void buddy_cpu_touch_watchdog(void) +{ + /* + * Using __raw here because some code paths have + * preemption enabled. If preemption is enabled + * then interrupts should be enabled too, in which + * case we shouldn't have to worry about the watchdog + * going off. + */ + raw_cpu_write(watchdog_touch, true); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(buddy_cpu_touch_watchdog); + +static unsigned int watchdog_next_cpu(unsigned int cpu) +{ + cpumask_t cpus = watchdog_cpus; + unsigned int next_cpu; + + next_cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, &cpus); + if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + next_cpu = cpumask_first(&cpus); + + if (next_cpu == cpu) + return nr_cpu_ids; + + return next_cpu; +} + +int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) +{ + /* + * The new cpu will be marked online before the first hrtimer interrupt + * runs on it. If another cpu tests for a hardlockup on the new cpu + * before it has run its first hrtimer, it will get a false positive. + * Touch the watchdog on the new cpu to delay the first check for at + * least 3 sampling periods to guarantee one hrtimer has run on the new + * cpu. + */ + per_cpu(watchdog_touch, cpu) = true; + /* Match with smp_rmb() in watchdog_check_hardlockup() */ + smp_wmb(); + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &watchdog_cpus); + return 0; +} + +void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu) +{ + unsigned int next_cpu = watchdog_next_cpu(cpu); + + /* + * Offlining this cpu will cause the cpu before this one to start + * checking the one after this one. If this cpu just finished checking + * the next cpu and updating hrtimer_interrupts_saved, and then the + * previous cpu checks it within one sample period, it will trigger a + * false positive. Touch the watchdog on the next cpu to prevent it. + */ + if (next_cpu < nr_cpu_ids) + per_cpu(watchdog_touch, next_cpu) = true; + /* Match with smp_rmb() in watchdog_check_hardlockup() */ + smp_wmb(); + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &watchdog_cpus); +} + +static int is_hardlockup_buddy_cpu(unsigned int cpu) +{ + unsigned long hrint = per_cpu(hrtimer_interrupts, cpu); + + if (per_cpu(hrtimer_interrupts_saved, cpu) == hrint) + return 1; + + per_cpu(hrtimer_interrupts_saved, cpu) = hrint; + return 0; +} + +void watchdog_check_hardlockup(void) +{ + unsigned int next_cpu; + + /* + * Test for hardlockups every 3 samples. The sample period is + * watchdog_thresh * 2 / 5, so 3 samples gets us back to slightly over + * watchdog_thresh (over by 20%). + */ + if (__this_cpu_read(hrtimer_interrupts) % 3 != 0) + return; + + /* check for a hardlockup on the next cpu */ + next_cpu = watchdog_next_cpu(smp_processor_id()); + if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + return; + + /* Match with smp_wmb() in watchdog_nmi_enable() / watchdog_nmi_disable() */ + smp_rmb(); + + if (per_cpu(watchdog_touch, next_cpu) == true) { + per_cpu(watchdog_touch, next_cpu) = false; + return; + } + + if (is_hardlockup_buddy_cpu(next_cpu)) { + /* only warn once */ + if (per_cpu(hard_watchdog_warn, next_cpu) == true) + return; + + /* + * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups + * generating interleaving traces + */ + if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace && + !test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped)) + trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace(); + + if (hardlockup_panic) + panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %u", next_cpu); + else + WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %u", next_cpu); + + per_cpu(hard_watchdog_warn, next_cpu) = true; + } else { + per_cpu(hard_watchdog_warn, next_cpu) = false; + } +} diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 39d1d93164bd..9eb86bc9f5ee 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1036,6 +1036,9 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP bool +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE + bool + # # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. @@ -1045,6 +1048,7 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH select LOCKUP_DETECTOR + select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF help Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect @@ -1055,9 +1059,22 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY_CPU + bool "Buddy CPU hardlockup detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SMP + depends on !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG + depends on !S390 + select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE + select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR + help + Say Y here to enable a hardlockup detector where CPUs check + each other for lockup. Each cpu uses its softlockup hrtimer + to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by + verifying that a counter is increasing. + config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" - depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR + depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE help Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel