linux/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v4.3

watchdog: rename watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume()

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

Rename watchdog_suspend() to lockup_detector_suspend() and watchdog_resume() to lockup_detector_resume() to avoid confusion with the watchdog subsystem and to be consistent with the existing name lockup_detector_init(). Also provide comment blocks to explain the watchdog_running and watchdog_suspended variables and their relationship. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: use suspend/resume interface in fixup_ht_bug()

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

Remove watchdog_nmi_disable_all() and watchdog_nmi_enable_all() since these functions are no longer needed. If a subsystem has a need to deactivate the watchdog temporarily, it should utilize the watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume() functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=m] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: use park/unpark functions in update_watchdog_all_cpus()

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

Remove update_watchdog() and restart_watchdog_hrtimer() since these functions are no longer needed. Changes of parameters such as the sample period are honored at the time when the watchdog threads are being unparked. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: introduce watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume()

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

This interface can be utilized to deactivate the hard and soft lockup detector temporarily. Callers are expected to minimize the duration of deactivation. Multiple deactivations are allowed to occur in parallel but should be rare in practice. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded static initialization] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: introduce watchdog_park_threads() and watchdog_unpark_threads()

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

Originally watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu) and watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu) were only called in watchdog thread context. However, the following commits utilize these functions outside of watchdog thread context too. commit 9809b18fcf6b8d8ec4d3643677345907e6b50eca Author: Michal Hocko Date: Tue Sep 24 15:27:30 2013 -0700 watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly commit b3738d29323344da3017a91010530cf3a58590fc Author: Stephane Eranian Date: Mon Nov 17 20:07:03 2014 +0100 watchdog: Add watchdog enable/disable all functions Hence, it is now possible that these functions execute concurrently with the same 'cpu' argument. This concurrency is problematic because per-cpu 'watchdog_ev' can be accessed/modified without adequate synchronization. The patch series aims to address the above problem. However, instead of introducing locks to protect per-cpu 'watchdog_ev' a different approach is taken: Invoke these functions by parking and unparking the watchdog threads (to ensure they are always called in watchdog thread context). static struct smp_hotplug_thread watchdog_threads = { ... .park = watchdog_disable, // calls watchdog_nmi_disable() .unpark = watchdog_enable, // calls watchdog_nmi_enable() }; Both previously mentioned commits call these functions in a similar way and thus in principle contain some duplicate code. The patch series also avoids this duplication by providing a commonly usable mechanism. - Patch 1/4 introduces the watchdog_{park|unpark}_threads functions that park/unpark all watchdog threads specified in 'watchdog_cpumask'. They are intended to be called inside of kernel/watchdog.c only. - Patch 2/4 introduces the watchdog_{suspend|resume} functions which can be utilized by external callers to deactivate the hard and soft lockup detector temporarily. - Patch 3/4 utilizes watchdog_{park|unpark}_threads to replace some code that was introduced by commit 9809b18fcf6b8d8ec4d3643677345907e6b50eca. - Patch 4/4 utilizes watchdog_{suspend|resume} to replace some code that was introduced by commit b3738d29323344da3017a91010530cf3a58590fc. A few corner cases should be mentioned here for completeness. - kthread_park() of watchdog/N could hang if cpu N is already locked up. However, if watchdog is enabled the lockup will be detected anyway. - kthread_unpark() of watchdog/N could hang if cpu N got locked up after kthread_park(). The occurrence of this scenario should be _very_ rare in practice, in particular because it is not expected that temporary deactivation will happen frequently, and if it happens at all it is expected that the duration of deactivation will be short. This patch (of 4): introduce watchdog_park_threads() and watchdog_unpark_threads() These functions are intended to be used only from inside kernel/watchdog.c to park/unpark all watchdog threads that are specified in watchdog_cpumask. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog: move NMI function header declarations from watchdog.h to nmi.h

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

The kernel's NMI watchdog has nothing to do with the watchdog subsystem. Its header declarations should be in linux/nmi.h, not linux/watchdog.h. The code provided two sets of dummy functions if HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is not configured, one in the include file and one in kernel/watchdog.c. Remove the dummy functions from kernel/watchdog.c and use those from the include file. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: simplify housekeeping affinity with the appropriate mask

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

housekeeping_mask gathers all the CPUs that aren't part of the nohz_full set. This is exactly what we want the watchdog to be affine to without the need to use complicated cpumask operations. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

smpboot: allow passing the cpumask on per-cpu thread registration

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

It makes the registration cheaper and simpler for the smpboot per-cpu kthread users that don't need to always update the cpumask after threads creation. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix for allow passing the cpumask on per-cpu thread registration] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohz

2015-06-25T00:49:40Z

Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time. Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on with a new kernel.watchdog_cpumask sysctl. In the current system, the watchdog subsystem runs a periodic timer that schedules the watchdog kthread to run. However, nohz_full cores are designed to allow userspace application code running on those cores to have 100% access to the CPU. So the watchdog system prevents the nohz_full application code from being able to run the way it wants to, thus the motivation to suppress the watchdog on nohz_full cores, which this patchset provides by default. However, if we disable the watchdog globally, then the housekeeping cores can't benefit from the watchdog functionality. So we allow disabling it only on some cores. See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt for more information. [jhubbard@nvidia.com: fix a watchdog crash in some configurations] Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf Acked-by: Don Zickus Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: John Hubbard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: fix double lock in watchdog_nmi_enable_all

2015-05-19T17:57:03Z

Commit ab992dc38f9a ("watchdog: Fix merge 'conflict'") has introduced an obvious deadlock because of a typo. watchdog_proc_mutex should be unlocked on exit. Thanks to Miroslav Benes who was staring at the code with me and noticed this. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Duh-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds