Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] misc: Add a mechanism to detect stalls on guest vCPUs

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2022-06-21 09:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 08:03:09AM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> > This driver creates per-cpu hrtimers which are required to do the
> > periodic 'pet' operation. On a conventional watchdog-core driver, the
> > userspace is responsible for delivering the 'pet' events by writing to
> > the particular /dev/watchdogN node. In this case we require a strong
> > thread affinity to be able to account for lost time on a per vCPU.
> >
> > This part of the driver is the 'frontend' which is reponsible for
> > delivering the periodic 'pet' events, configuring the virtual 
> > peripheral
> > and listening for cpu hotplug events. The other part of the driver
> > handles the peripheral emulation and this part accounts for lost time 
> > by
> > looking at the /proc/{}/task/{}/stat entries and is located here:
> > https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3548817
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/Kconfig               |  12 ++
> >  drivers/misc/Makefile              |   1 +
> >  drivers/misc/vcpu_stall_detector.c | 222 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 235 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/vcpu_stall_detector.c
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> > index 41d2bb0ae23a..e15c85d74c4b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> > @@ -483,6 +483,18 @@ config OPEN_DICE
> >
> >  	  If unsure, say N.
> >
> > +config VCPU_STALL_DETECTOR
> > +	tristate "VCPU stall detector"
> > +	select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
> > +	help
> > +	  Detect CPU locks on a kvm virtual machine. This driver relies on
> > +	  the hrtimers which are CPU-binded to do the 'pet' operation. When 
> > a
> > +	  vCPU has to do a 'pet', it exits the guest through MMIO write and
> > +	  the backend driver takes into account the lost ticks for this
> > +	  particular CPU.
> > +	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> > +	  module will be called vcpu_stall_detector.
>
> Should this depend on KVM_GUEST?

Not all architectures have KVM_GUEST, and arm64 has no use for it.

Thanks,

        M.
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