[PATCH] watchdog: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Sep 25 2015 - 07:16:00 EST
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know
why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a
resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding.
IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the
actual offender.
Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have
hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
include/linux/nmi.h | 1 +
kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++
kernel/watchdog.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
5 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 22a4b68..b4af96e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1246,6 +1246,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
Default: 1024
+ hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
+ [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
+ backtraces on all cpus.
+ Format: <integer>
+
hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 6fccb69..af70d15 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- domainname
- hostname
- hotplug
+- hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace
- hung_task_panic
- hung_task_check_count
- hung_task_timeout_secs
@@ -293,6 +294,17 @@ domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion
see the hostname(1) man page.
==============================================================
+hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace:
+
+This value controls the hard lockup detector behavior when a hard
+lockup condition is detected as to whether or not to gather further
+debug information. If enabled, arch-specific all-CPU stack dumping
+will be initiated.
+
+0: do nothing. This is the default behavior.
+
+1: on detection capture more debug information.
+==============================================================
hotplug:
diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 78488e0..7ec5b86 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ extern int watchdog_user_enabled;
extern int watchdog_thresh;
extern unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits;
extern int sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
+extern int sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
struct ctl_table;
extern int proc_watchdog(struct ctl_table *, int ,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index e69201d..efb0370 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -897,6 +897,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &one,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace",
+ .data = &sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &one,
+ },
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_X86)
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 64ed1c3..202999c 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
int __read_mostly sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
+int __read_mostly sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
#else
#define sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0
+#define sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0
#endif
static struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask);
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
static int hardlockup_panic =
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
+static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped;
/*
* We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases,
* for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these
@@ -173,6 +176,13 @@ static int __init softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
return 1;
}
__setup("softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
+static int __init hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
+{
+ sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace =
+ !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
#endif
/*
@@ -318,17 +328,30 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
*/
if (is_hardlockup()) {
int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
/* only print hardlockups once */
if (__this_cpu_read(hard_watchdog_warn) == true)
return;
- if (hardlockup_panic)
- panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
- this_cpu);
+ pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu);
+ print_modules();
+ print_irqtrace_events(current);
+ if (regs)
+ show_regs(regs);
else
- WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
- this_cpu);
+ dump_stack();
+
+ /*
+ * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups
+ * generating interleaving traces
+ */
+ if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace &&
+ !test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped))
+ trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
+
+ if (hardlockup_panic)
+ panic("Hard LOCKUP");
__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
return;
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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