linux/kernel/watchdog.c, branch v5.19

Merge branch 'rework/kthreads' into for-linus

2022-06-23T17:11:28Z

Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing"

2022-06-23T16:41:40Z

This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2. The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization between early and regular console functionality. It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround. But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not considered by people involved in the development and review. printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-05-27T18:22:03Z

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "The non-MM patch queue for this merge window. Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2 and initramfs" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits) kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir fat: report creation time in statx fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments ...

lib/Kconfig.debug: remove more CONFIG_..._VALUE indirections

2022-04-29T21:38:00Z

As in "kernel/panic.c: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE indirection", use the IS_ENABLED() helper rather than having a hidden config option. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220321121301.1389693-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

printk: add functions to prefer direct printing

2022-04-22T19:30:58Z

Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case. Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit() functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing. This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled until now (unless it was explicitly deferred). When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages. In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is activated for the primary important messages when the system experiences general types of major errors. These are: - emergency reboot/shutdown - cpu and rcu stalls - hard and soft lockups - hung tasks - warn - sysrq Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the counter and marking the various places where preferred direct printing is active. Signed-off-by: John Ogness Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney # for RCU Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de

sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumask

2022-02-16T14:57:55Z

Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags. This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each isolation features will have their own cpumask. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli Reviewed-by: Phil Auld Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org

watchdog: move watchdog sysctl interface to watchdog.c

2022-01-22T06:33:34Z

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic of proc sysctl. So, move the watchdog syscl interface to watchdog.c. Use register_sysctl() to register the sysctl interface to avoid merge conflicts when different features modify sysctl.c at the same time. [mcgrof@kernel.org: justify the move on the commit log] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-5-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Al Viro Cc: Amir Goldstein Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qing Wang Cc: Sebastian Reichel Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Stephen Kitt Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Antti Palosaari Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Airlie Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Joonas Lahtinen Cc: Joseph Qi Cc: Julia Lawall Cc: Lukas Middendorf Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Phillip Potter Cc: Rodrigo Vivi Cc: Douglas Gilbert Cc: James E.J. Bottomley Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: John Ogness Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread

2021-06-29T17:53:46Z

The watchdog thread has been replaced by cpu_stop_work, modify the explanation related. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-2-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Wang Qing Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Stephen Kitt Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Qais Yousef Cc: Santosh Sivaraj Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: reliable handling of timestamps

2021-05-23T01:09:07Z

Commit 9bf3bc949f8a ("watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives") tried to handle a virtual host stopped by the host a more straightforward and cleaner way. But it introduced a risk of false softlockup reports. The virtual host might be stopped at any time, for example between kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() and is_softlockup(). As a result, is_softlockup() might read the updated jiffies and detects a softlockup. A solution might be to put back kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() after is_softlockup() and detect it. But it would put back the cycle that complicates the logic. In fact, the handling of all the timestamps is not reliable. The code does not guarantee when and how many times the timestamps are read. For example, "period_ts" might be touched anytime also from NMI and re-read in is_softlockup(). It works just by chance. Fix all the problems by making the code even more explicit. 1. Make sure that "now" and "period_ts" timestamps are read only once. They might be changed at anytime by NMI or when the virtual guest is stopped by the host. Note that "now" timestamp does this implicitly because "jiffies" is marked volatile. 2. "now" time must be read first. The state of "period_ts" will decide whether it will be used or the period will get restarted. 3. kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() must be called before reading "period_ts". It touches the variable when the guest was stopped. As a result, "now" timestamp is used only when the watchdog was not touched and the guest not stopped in the meantime. "period_ts" is restarted in all other situations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YKT55gw+RZfyoFf7@alley Fixes: 9bf3bc949f8aeefeacea4b ("watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives") Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives

2021-04-30T18:20:36Z

Commit d6ad3e286d2c ("softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume") introduced touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). It solved a problem when the watchdog was touched in an atomic context, the timer callback was proceed right after releasing interrupts, and the local clock has not been updated yet. In this case, sched_clock_tick() was called in watchdog_timer_fn() before updating the timer. So far so good. Later commit 5d1c0f4a80a6 ("watchdog: add check for suspended vm in softlockup detector") added two kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() calls. They touch the watchdog when the guest has been sleeping. The code makes my head spin around. Scenario 1: + guest did sleep: + PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED is set + 1st watchdog_timer_fn() invocation: + the watchdog is not touched yet + is_softlockup() returns too big delay + kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(): + clear PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED + call touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync() + set SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT + set softlockup_touch_sync + return from the timer callback + 2nd watchdog_timer_fn() invocation: + call sched_clock_tick() even though it is not needed. The timer callback was invoked again only because the clock has already been updated in the meantime. + call kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() that does nothing because PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED has been cleared already. + call update_report_ts() and return. This is fine. Except that sched_clock_tick() might allow to set it already during the 1st invocation. Scenario 2: + guest did sleep + 1st watchdog_timer_fn() invocation + same as in 1st scenario + guest did sleep again: + set PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED again + 2nd watchdog_timer_fn() invocation + SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT is set from 1st invocation + call sched_clock_tick() + call kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() + clear PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED + call touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync() + set SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT + set softlockup_touch_sync + call update_report_ts() (set real timestamp immediately) + return from the timer callback + 3rd watchdog_timer_fn() invocation + timestamp is set from 2nd invocation + softlockup_touch_sync is set but not checked because the real timestamp is already set Make the code more straightforward: 1. Always call kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() at the very beginning to handle PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED. It touches the watchdog when the quest did sleep. 2. Handle the situation when the watchdog has been touched (SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT is set). Call sched_clock_tick() when touch_*sync() variant was used. It makes sure that the timestamp will be up to date even when it has been touched in atomic context or quest did sleep. As a result, kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() is called on a single location. And the right timestamp is always set when returning from the timer callback. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-7-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Laurence Oberman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vincent Whitchurch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds