[PATCHv3 2/2] watchdog/softlockup: report the most frequent interrupts

From: Bitao Hu
Date: Wed Jan 31 2024 - 12:19:08 EST


When the watchdog determines that the current soft lockup is due
to an interrupt storm based on CPU utilization, reporting the
most frequent interrupts could be good enough for further
troubleshooting.

Below is an example of interrupt storm. The call tree does not
provide useful information, but we can analyze which interrupt
caused the soft lockup by comparing the counts of interrupts.

[ 2987.488075] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 23s! [kworker/9:1:214]
[ 2987.488607] CPU#9 Utilization every 4s during lockup:
[ 2987.488941] #1: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
[ 2987.489357] #2: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
[ 2987.489771] #3: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
[ 2987.490186] #4: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
[ 2987.490601] #5: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
[ 2987.491034] CPU#9 Detect HardIRQ Time exceeds 50%. Most frequent HardIRQs:
[ 2987.491493] #1: 330985 irq#7(IPI)
[ 2987.491743] #2: 5000 irq#10(arch_timer)
[ 2987.492039] #3: 9 irq#91(nvme0q2)
[ 2987.492318] #4: 3 irq#118(virtio1-output.12)
..
[ 2987.492728] Call trace:
[ 2987.492729] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x364

Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 156 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 046507be4eb5..c4c25f25eae7 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/math64.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/irqdesc.h>

#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
#include <linux/kvm_para.h>
@@ -431,11 +434,15 @@ void touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(void)
__this_cpu_write(watchdog_report_ts, SOFTLOCKUP_DELAY_REPORT);
}

+static void set_potential_softlockup(unsigned long now, unsigned long touch_ts);
+
static int is_softlockup(unsigned long touch_ts,
unsigned long period_ts,
unsigned long now)
{
if ((watchdog_enabled & WATCHDOG_SOFTOCKUP_ENABLED) && watchdog_thresh) {
+ /* Softlockup may occur in the current period */
+ set_potential_softlockup(now, period_ts);
/* Warn about unreasonable delays. */
if (time_after(now, period_ts + get_softlockup_thresh()))
return now - touch_ts;
@@ -462,6 +469,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u16, cpustat_old[NUM_STATS_PER_GROUP]);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8, cpustat_utilization[NUM_STATS_GROUPS][NUM_STATS_PER_GROUP]);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8, cpustat_tail);

+static void print_hardirq_counts(void);
+
/*
* We don't need nanosecond resolution. A granularity of 16ms is
* sufficient for our precision, allowing us to use u16 to store
@@ -516,10 +525,156 @@ static void print_cpustat(void)
__this_cpu_read(cpustat_utilization[i][STATS_HARDIRQ]),
__this_cpu_read(cpustat_utilization[i][STATS_IDLE]));
}
+ print_hardirq_counts();
+}
+
+#define HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH 50
+#define NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT 5
+static DECLARE_BITMAP(softlockup_hardirq_cpus, CONFIG_NR_CPUS);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u32 *, hardirq_counts);
+
+struct irq_counts {
+ int irq;
+ u32 counts;
+};
+
+static void find_counts_top(struct irq_counts *irq_counts, int irq, u32 counts, int range)
+{
+ unsigned int i, j;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < range; i++) {
+ if (counts > irq_counts[i].counts) {
+ for (j = range - 1; j > i; j--) {
+ irq_counts[j].counts = irq_counts[j - 1].counts;
+ irq_counts[j].irq = irq_counts[j - 1].irq;
+ }
+ irq_counts[j].counts = counts;
+ irq_counts[j].irq = irq;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * If the proportion of time spent handling irq exceeds HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH%
+ * during sample_period, then it is necessary to record the counts of each irq.
+ */
+static inline bool need_record_irq_counts(int type)
+{
+ int tail = __this_cpu_read(cpustat_tail);
+ u8 utilization;
+
+ if (--tail == -1)
+ tail = 4;
+ utilization = __this_cpu_read(cpustat_utilization[tail][type]);
+ return utilization > HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Mark softlockup as potentially caused by hardirq
+ */
+static void set_potential_softlockup_hardirq(void)
+{
+ u32 i;
+ u32 *counts = __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts);
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ struct irq_desc *desc;
+
+ if (!need_record_irq_counts(STATS_HARDIRQ))
+ return;
+
+ if (!test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) {
+ counts = kmalloc_array(nr_irqs, sizeof(u32), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!counts)
+ return;
+ for_each_irq_desc(i, desc) {
+ if (!desc)
+ continue;
+ counts[i] = desc->kstat_irqs ?
+ *this_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs) : 0;
+ }
+ __this_cpu_write(hardirq_counts, counts);
+ set_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus);
+ }
+}
+
+static void clear_potential_softlockup_hardirq(void)
+{
+ u32 *counts = __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts);
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+ if (test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) {
+ kfree(counts);
+ counts = NULL;
+ __this_cpu_write(hardirq_counts, counts);
+ clear_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus);
+ }
}
+
+/*
+ * Mark that softlockup may occur
+ */
+static void set_potential_softlockup(unsigned long now, unsigned long period_ts)
+{
+ if (time_after_eq(now, period_ts + get_softlockup_thresh() / 5))
+ set_potential_softlockup_hardirq();
+}
+
+static void clear_potential_softlockup(void)
+{
+ clear_potential_softlockup_hardirq();
+}
+
+static void print_hardirq_counts(void)
+{
+ u32 i;
+ struct irq_desc *desc;
+ u32 counts_diff;
+ u32 *counts = __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts);
+ int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ struct irq_counts hardirq_counts_top[NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT] = {
+ {-1, 0}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 0},
+ };
+
+ if (test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) {
+ /* Find the top NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT most frequent interrupts */
+ for_each_irq_desc(i, desc) {
+ if (!desc)
+ continue;
+ counts_diff = desc->kstat_irqs ?
+ *this_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs) - counts[i] : 0;
+ find_counts_top(hardirq_counts_top, i, counts_diff,
+ NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT);
+ }
+ /*
+ * We do not want the "watchdog: " prefix on every line,
+ * hence we use "printk" instead of "pr_crit".
+ */
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU#%d Detect HardIRQ Time exceeds %d%%. Most frequent HardIRQs:\n",
+ smp_processor_id(), HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH);
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT; i++) {
+ if (hardirq_counts_top[i].irq == -1)
+ break;
+ desc = irq_to_desc(hardirq_counts_top[i].irq);
+ if (desc && desc->action)
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "\t#%u: %-10u\tirq#%d(%s)\n",
+ i+1, hardirq_counts_top[i].counts,
+ hardirq_counts_top[i].irq, desc->action->name);
+ else
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "\t#%u: %-10u\tirq#%d\n",
+ i+1, hardirq_counts_top[i].counts,
+ hardirq_counts_top[i].irq);
+ }
+ if (!need_record_irq_counts(STATS_HARDIRQ))
+ clear_potential_softlockup_hardirq();
+ }
+}
+
#else
static inline void update_cpustat(void) { }
static inline void print_cpustat(void) { }
+static inline void set_potential_softlockup(unsigned long now, unsigned long period_ts) { }
+static inline void clear_potential_softlockup(void) { }
#endif

/* watchdog detector functions */
@@ -537,6 +692,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stop_work, softlockup_stop_work);
static int softlockup_fn(void *data)
{
update_touch_ts();
+ clear_potential_softlockup();
complete(this_cpu_ptr(&softlockup_completion));

return 0;
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