Re: [PATCH] hardlockup: detect hard lockups using secondary (buddy) cpus

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi--

On 4/21/23 15:53, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> From: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Implement a hardlockup detector that can be enabled on SMP systems
> that don't have an arch provided one or one implemented atop perf by

Is that                            one or more
?

> using interrupts on other cpus. Each cpu will use its softlockup
> hrtimer to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by
> verifying that a counter is increasing.
> 
> NOTE: unlike the other hard lockup detectors, the buddy one can't
> easily provide a backtrace on the CPU that locked up. It relies on
> some other mechanism in the system to get information about the locked
> up CPUs. This could be support for NMI backtraces like [1], it could
> be a mechanism for printing the PC of locked CPUs like [2], or it
> could be something else.
> 
> This style of hardlockup detector originated in some downstream
> Android trees and has been rebased on / carried in ChromeOS trees for
> quite a long time for use on arm and arm64 boards. Historically on
> these boards we've leveraged mechanism [2] to get information about
> hung CPUs, but we could move to [1].
> 
> NOTE: the buddy system is not really useful to enable on any
> architectures that have a better mechanism. On arm64 folks have been
> trying to get a better mechanism for years and there has even been
> recent posts of patches adding support [3]. However, nothing about the
> buddy system is tied to arm64 and several archs (even arm32, where it
> was originally developed) could find it useful.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419225604.21204-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [2] https://issuetracker.google.com/172213129
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220903093415.15850-1-lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch has been rebased in ChromeOS kernel trees many times, and
> each time someone had to do work on it they added their
> Signed-off-by. I've included those here. I've also left the author as
> Colin Cross since the core code is still his.
> 
> I'll also note that the CC list is pretty giant, but that's what
> get_maintainers came up with (plus a few other folks I thought would
> be interested). As far as I can tell, there's no true MAINTAINER
> listed for the existing watchdog code. Assuming people don't hate
> this, maybe it would go through Andrew Morton's tree?
> 
>  include/linux/nmi.h         |  18 ++++-
>  kernel/Makefile             |   1 +
>  kernel/watchdog.c           |  24 ++++--
>  kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/Kconfig.debug           |  19 ++++-
>  5 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 kernel/watchdog_buddy_cpu.c
> 

> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 39d1d93164bd..9eb86bc9f5ee 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -1036,6 +1036,9 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
>  config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP
>  	bool
>  
> +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE
> +	bool
> +
>  #
>  # arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard
>  # lockup detector rather than the perf based detector.
> @@ -1045,6 +1048,7 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
>  	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390
>  	depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
>  	select LOCKUP_DETECTOR
> +	select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE
>  	select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
>  	help
>  	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect
> @@ -1055,9 +1059,22 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
>  	  chance to run.  The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
>  	  and the system will stay locked up.
>  
> +config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY_CPU
> +	bool "Buddy CPU hardlockup detector"
> +	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SMP
> +	depends on !HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
> +	depends on !S390
> +	select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE
> +	select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
> +	help
> +	  Say Y here to enable a hardlockup detector where CPUs check
> +	  each other for lockup. Each cpu uses its softlockup hrtimer

Preferably                            CPU

> +	  to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by

and                              CPU

> +	  verifying that a counter is increasing.
> +
>  config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
>  	bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
> -	depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
> +	depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_CORE
>  	help
>  	  Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
>  	  which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel

-- 
~Randy