linux-toradex.git/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v3.12-rc7

watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly

2013-09-25T00:00:25+00:00

watchdog_tresh controls how often nmi perf event counter checks per-cpu
hrtimer_interrupts counter and blows up if the counter hasn't changed
since the last check.  The counter is updated by per-cpu
watchdog_hrtimer hrtimer which is scheduled with 2/5 watchdog_thresh
period which guarantees that hrtimer is scheduled 2 times per the main
period.  Both hrtimer and perf event are started together when the
watchdog is enabled.

So far so good.  But...

But what happens when watchdog_thresh is updated from sysctl handler?

proc_dowatchdog will set a new sampling period and hrtimer callback
(watchdog_timer_fn) will use the new value in the next round.  The
problem, however, is that nobody tells the perf event that the sampling
period has changed so it is ticking with the period configured when it
has been set up.

This might result in an ear ripping dissonance between perf and hrtimer
parts if the watchdog_thresh is increased.  And even worse it might lead
to KABOOM if the watchdog is configured to panic on such a spurious
lockup.

This patch fixes the issue by updating both nmi perf even counter and
hrtimers if the threshold value has changed.

The nmi one is disabled and then reinitialized from scratch.  This has
an unpleasant side effect that the allocation of the new event might
fail theoretically so the hard lockup detector would be disabled for
such cpus.  On the other hand such a memory allocation failure is very
unlikely because the original event is deallocated right before.

It would be much nicer if we just changed perf event period but there
doesn't seem to be any API to do that right now.  It is also unfortunate
that perf_event_alloc uses GFP_KERNEL allocation unconditionally so we
cannot use on_each_cpu() and do the same thing from the per-cpu context.
The update from the current CPU should be safe because
perf_event_disable removes the event atomically before it clears the
per-cpu watchdog_ev so it cannot change anything under running handler
feet.

The hrtimer is simply restarted (thanks to Don Zickus who has pointed
this out) if it is queued because we cannot rely it will fire&adopt to
the new sampling period before a new nmi event triggers (when the
treshold is decreased).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: the UP version of __smp_call_function_single ended up in the wrong place]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Fabio Estevam 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: update watchdog attributes atomically

2013-09-25T00:00:25+00:00

proc_dowatchdog doesn't synchronize multiple callers which might lead to
confusion when two parallel callers might confuse watchdog_enable_all_cpus
resp watchdog_disable_all_cpus (eg watchdog gets enabled even if
watchdog_thresh was set to 0 already).

This patch adds a local mutex which synchronizes callers to the sysctl
handler.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: Make it work under full dynticks

2013-07-30T20:29:15+00:00

A perf event can be used without forcing the tick to
stay alive if it doesn't use a frequency but a sample
period and if it doesn't throttle (raise storm of events).

Since the lockup detector neither use a perf event frequency
nor should ever throttle due to its high period, it can now
run concurrently with the full dynticks feature.

So remove the hack that disabled the watchdog.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Anish Singh 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374539466-4799-9-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks

2013-06-20T13:46:32+00:00

When the watchdog runs, it prevents the full dynticks
CPUs from stopping their tick because the hard lockup
detector uses perf events internally, which in turn
rely on the periodic tick.

Since this is a rather confusing behaviour that is not
easy to track down and identify for those who want to
test CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, let's default disable the
watchdog on boot time when full dynticks is enabled.

The user can still enable it later on runtime using
proc or sysctl.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Anish Singh

watchdog: Rename confusing state variable

2013-06-20T13:41:18+00:00

We have two very conflicting state variable names in the
watchdog:

* watchdog_enabled: This one reflects the user interface. It's
set to 1 by default and can be overriden with boot options
or sysctl/procfs interface.

* watchdog_disabled: This is the internal toggle state that
tells if watchdog threads, timers and NMI events are currently
running or not. This state mostly depends on the user settings.
It's a convenient state latch.

Now we really need to find clearer names because those
are just too confusing to encourage deep review.

watchdog_enabled now becomes watchdog_user_enabled to reflect
its purpose as an interface.

watchdog_disabled becomes watchdog_running to suggest its
role as a pure internal state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Anish Singh 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Don Zickus

watchdog: Register / unregister watchdog kthreads on sysctl control

2013-06-19T23:16:09+00:00

The user activation/deactivation of the watchdog through boot parameters
or systcl is currently implemented with a dance involving kthreads parking
and unparking methods: the threads are unconditionally registered on
boot and they park as soon as the user want the watchdog to be disabled.

This method involves a few noisy details to handle though: the watchdog
kthreads may be unparked anytime due to hotplug operations, after which
the watchdog internals have to decide to park again if it is user-disabled.

As a result the setup() and unpark() methods need to be able to request a
reparking. This is not currently supported in the kthread infrastructure
so this piece of the watchdog code only works halfway.

Besides, unparking/reparking the watchdog kthreads consume unnecessary
cputime on hotplug operations when those could be simply ignored in the
first place.

As suggested by Srivatsa, let's instead only register the watchdog
threads when they are needed. This way we don't need to think about
hotplug operations and we don't burden the CPU onlining when the watchdog
is simply disabled.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Anish Singh 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Don Zickus

watchdog: Add comments to explain the watchdog_disabled variable

2013-03-14T07:24:05+00:00

The watchdog_disabled flag is a bit cryptic. However it's
usefulness is multifold. Uses are:

 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed.

 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in
    sequence i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog
    Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong.

Signed-off-by: anish kumar 
[small text cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: chuansheng.liu@intel.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363113848-18344-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-02-23T03:25:09+00:00

Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
  assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.

  The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
  to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.

  The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
  locking changes."

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
  generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
  lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
  seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
  seqlock: Remove unused functions
  ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
  intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
  locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
  lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
  rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
  watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
  lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
  locking/stat: Fix a typo

watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()

2013-02-19T07:42:40+00:00

The get_timestamp() function is always called with current cpu,
thus using local_clock() would be more appropriate and it makes
the code shorter and cleaner IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356576585-28782-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file

2013-02-07T19:51:08+00:00

Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into
new file include/linux/sched/rt.h

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar