linux/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v4.11

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34Z

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:27Z

We are going to move scheduler ABI details to , which will be used from a number of .c files. Create empty placeholder header that maps to . Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:27Z

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/watchdog: prevent false hardlockup on overloaded system

2017-01-25T00:26:14Z

On an overloaded system, it is possible that a change in the watchdog threshold can be delayed long enough to trigger a false positive. This can easily be achieved by having a cpu spinning indefinitely on a task, while another cpu updates watchdog threshold. What happens is while trying to park the watchdog threads, the hrtimers on the other cpus trigger and reprogram themselves with the new slower watchdog threshold. Meanwhile, the nmi watchdog is still programmed with the old faster threshold. Because the one cpu is blocked, it prevents the thread parking on the other cpus from completing, which is needed to shutdown the nmi watchdog and reprogram it correctly. As a result, a false positive from the nmi watchdog is reported. Fix this by setting a park_in_progress flag to block all lockups until the parking is complete. Fix provided by Ulrich Obergfell. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/park_in_progress/watchdog_park_in_progress/] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481041033-192236-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file

2016-12-15T00:04:08Z

Separate hardlockup code from watchdog.c and move it to watchdog_hld.c. It is mostly straight forward. Remove everything inside CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTORS. This code will go to file watchdog_hld.c. Also update the makefile accordigly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-3-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Babu Moger Acked-by: Don Zickus Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Yaowei Bai Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Josh Hunt Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog.c: move shared definitions to nmi.h

2016-12-15T00:04:08Z

Patch series "Clean up watchdog handlers", v2. This is an attempt to cleanup watchdog handlers. Right now, kernel/watchdog.c implements both softlockup and hardlockup detectors. Softlockup code is generic. Hardlockup code is arch specific. Some architectures don't use hardlockup detectors. They use their own watchdog detectors. To make both these combination work, we have numerous #ifdefs in kernel/watchdog.c. We are trying here to make these handlers independent of each other. Also provide an interface for architectures to implement their own handlers. watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable will be defined as weak such that architectures can override its definitions. Thanks to Don Zickus for his suggestions. Here are our previous discussions http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html This patch (of 3): Move shared macros and definitions to nmi.h so that watchdog.c, new file watchdog_hld.c or any other architecture specific handler can use those definitions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-2-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Babu Moger Acked-by: Don Zickus Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Yaowei Bai Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Josh Hunt Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog: use nmi registers snapshot in hardlockup handler

2016-12-15T00:04:07Z

NMI handler doesn't call set_irq_regs(), it's set only by normal IRQ. Thus get_irq_regs() returns NULL or stale registers snapshot with IP/SP pointing to the code interrupted by IRQ which was interrupted by NMI. NULL isn't a problem: in this case watchdog calls dump_stack() and prints full stack trace including NMI. But if we're stuck in IRQ handler then NMI watchlog will print stack trace without IRQ part at all. This patch uses registers snapshot passed into NMI handler as arguments: these registers point exactly to the instruction interrupted by NMI. Fixes: 55537871ef66 ("kernel/watchdog.c: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146771764784.86724.6006627197118544150.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: [4.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

While working on a script to restore all sysctl params before a series of tests I found that writing any value into the /proc/sys/kernel/{nmi_watchdog,soft_watchdog,watchdog,watchdog_thresh} causes them to call proc_watchdog_update(). NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. There doesn't appear to be a reason for doing this work every time a write occurs, so only do it when the values change. Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt Acked-by: Don Zickus Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: [4.1.x+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2016-01-12T02:53:13Z

Pull workqueue update from Tejun Heo: "Workqueue changes for v4.5. One cleanup patch and three to improve the debuggability. Workqueue now has a stall detector which dumps workqueue state if any worker pool hasn't made forward progress over a certain amount of time (30s by default) and also triggers a warning if a workqueue which can be used in memory reclaim path tries to wait on something which can't be. These should make workqueue hangs a lot easier to debug." * 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: simplify the apply_workqueue_attrs_locked() workqueue: implement lockup detector watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue

panic, x86: Allow CPUs to save registers even if looping in NMI context

2015-12-19T10:07:01Z

Currently, kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus(), a subroutine of crash_kexec(), sends an NMI IPI to CPUs which haven't called panic() to stop them, save their register information and do some cleanups for crash dumping. However, if such a CPU is infinitely looping in NMI context, we fail to save its register information into the crash dump. For example, this can happen when unknown NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as follows: CPU 0 CPU 1 =========================== ========================== receive an unknown NMI unknown_nmi_error() panic() receive an unknown NMI spin_trylock(&panic_lock) unknown_nmi_error() crash_kexec() panic() spin_trylock(&panic_lock) panic_smp_self_stop() infinite loop kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus() issue NMI IPI -----------> blocked until IRET infinite loop... Here, since CPU 1 is in NMI context, the second NMI from CPU 0 is blocked until CPU 1 executes IRET. However, CPU 1 never executes IRET, so the NMI is not handled and the callback function to save registers is never called. In practice, this can happen on some servers which broadcast NMIs to all CPUs when the NMI button is pushed. To save registers in this case, we need to: a) Return from NMI handler instead of looping infinitely or b) Call the callback function directly from the infinite loop Inherently, a) is risky because NMI is also used to prevent corrupted data from being propagated to devices. So, we chose b). This patch does the following: 1. Move the infinite looping of CPUs which haven't called panic() in NMI context (actually done by panic_smp_self_stop()) outside of panic() to enable us to refer pt_regs. Please note that panic_smp_self_stop() is still used for normal context. 2. Call a callback of kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus() directly to save registers and do some cleanups after setting waiting_for_crash_ipi which is used for counting down the number of CPUs which handled the callback Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Gobinda Charan Maji Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke Cc: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Javi Merino Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: lkml Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Nicolas Iooss Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014628.25437.75256.stgit@softrs [ Cleanup comments, fixup formatting. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner