const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's
series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high".
- Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes
exposed by fstests".
- kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo:
Clean up kfifo.h".
- GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb:
Fixes for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu".
- After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song
explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over
macros. The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a
function-like macro""
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (62 commits)
fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore
nilfs2: convert BUG_ON() in nilfs_finish_roll_forward() to WARN_ON()
scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro
Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate parameters
nilfs2: use __field_struct() for a bitwise field
selftests/kcmp: remove unused open mode
nilfs2: remove calls to folio_set_error() and folio_clear_error()
kernel/watchdog_perf.c: tidy up kerneldoc
watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event
watchdog: handle comma separated nmi_watchdog command line
nilfs2: make superblock data array index computation sparse friendly
squashfs: remove calls to set the folio error flag
squashfs: convert squashfs_symlink_read_folio to use folio APIs
scripts/gdb: fix detection of current CPU in KGDB
scripts/gdb: make get_thread_info accept pointers
scripts/gdb: fix parameter handling in $lx_per_cpu
scripts/gdb: fix failing KGDB detection during probe
kfifo: don't use "proxy" headers
media: stih-cec: add missing io.h
media: rc: add missing io.h
...
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*
Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
likely place where the final series that removes the check for
proc_name == NULL will land.
This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.
- Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
- Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
- Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
- Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure
Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
Weißschuh.
* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
NMI watchdog permanently consumes one hardware counters per CPU on the system. For systems that use many hardware counters, this causes more aggressive time multiplexing of perf events. OTOH, some CPUs (mostly Intel) support "ref-cycles" event, which is rarely used. Add kernel cmdline arg nmi_watchdog=rNNN to configure the watchdog to use raw event. For example, on Intel CPUs, we can use "r300" to configure the watchdog to use ref-cycles event. If the raw event does not work, fall back to use "cycles". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430060236.1878002-2-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Per the document, the kernel can accept comma separated command line like nmi_watchdog=nopanic,0. However, the code doesn't really handle it. Fix the kernel to handle it properly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430060236.1878002-1-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link : https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/) Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used to compare the size of the adjusted arrays. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
When the watchdog determines that the current soft lockup is due to an interrupt storm based on CPU utilization, reporting the most frequent interrupts could be good enough for further troubleshooting. Below is an example of interrupt storm. The call tree does not provide useful information, but analyzing which interrupt caused the soft lockup by comparing the counts of interrupts during the lockup period allows to identify the culprit. [ 638.870231] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 26s! [swapper/9:0] [ 638.870825] CPU#9 Utilization every 4s during lockup: [ 638.871194] #1: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle [ 638.871652] #2: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle [ 638.872107] #3: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle [ 638.872563] #4: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle [ 638.873018] #5: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle [ 638.873494] CPU#9 Detect HardIRQ Time exceeds 50%. Most frequent HardIRQs: [ 638.873994] #1: 330945 irq#7 [ 638.874236] #2: 31 irq#82 [ 638.874493] #3: 10 irq#10 [ 638.874744] #4: 2 irq#89 [ 638.874992] #5: 1 irq#102 ... [ 638.875313] Call trace: [ 638.875315] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x364 Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411074134.30922-6-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com
The following softlockup is caused by interrupt storm, but it cannot be
identified from the call tree. Because the call tree is just a snapshot
and doesn't fully capture the behavior of the CPU during the soft lockup.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#28 stuck for 23s! [fio:83921]
...
Call trace:
__do_softirq+0xa0/0x37c
__irq_exit_rcu+0x108/0x140
irq_exit+0x14/0x20
__handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xe0
gic_handle_irq+0x80/0x108
el0_irq_naked+0x50/0x58
Therefore, it is necessary to report CPU utilization during the
softlockup_threshold period (report once every sample_period, for a total
of 5 reportings), like this:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#28 stuck for 23s! [fio:83921]
CPU#28 Utilization every 4s during lockup:
#1: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#2: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#3: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#4: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#5: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
...
This is helpful in determining whether an interrupt storm has occurred or
in identifying the cause of the softlockup. The criteria for determination
are as follows:
a. If the hardirq utilization is high, then interrupt storm should be
considered and the root cause cannot be determined from the call tree.
b. If the softirq utilization is high, then the call might not necessarily
point at the root cause.
c. If the system utilization is high, then analyzing the root
cause from the call tree is possible in most cases.
The mechanism requires a considerable amount of global storage space
when configured for the maximum number of CPUs. Therefore, adding a
SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR_INTR_STORM Kconfig knob that defaults to "yes"
if the max number of CPUs is <= 128.
Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411074134.30922-5-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com
The functions are only used in the file where they are defined. Remove them from the header and make them static. Also guard proc_soft_watchdog with a #define-guard as it is not used otherwise. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240306-const-sysctl-prep-watchdog-v1-1-bd45da3a41cf@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If, as part of handling a hardlockup or softlockup, we've already dumped all CPUs and we're just about to panic, don't reenable dumping and give some other CPU a chance to hop in there and add some confusing logs right as the panic is happening. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220131534.4.Id3a9c7ec2d7d83e4080da6f8662ba2226b40543f@changeid Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>