Re: Unknown NMI after S4 resume

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> When running S4 test on Zhaoxin platform with Ubuntu22.04 kernel-6.10 we got
> unknown NMI messages after S4 resumed:
> 
> [  115.792224] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2d on CPU 0.
> [  115.792226] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> [  115.792228] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> 
> And reproduced on Intel platform.
> 
> After tracing, we find that the reason for this Unknown NMI occurs is as
> follows:
> a, 1st kernel starts normally and NMI watchdog is enabled on all cores;
> b, NMI watchdog is disabled on all cores through the sys interface, then
> variable active_events goto zero;
> c, Start hibernate, create & save hibernation image, then go hibernated;
> d, S4 resume event happened, 2nd kernel starts normally and NMI watchdog is
> enabled on All cores;
> e, 2nd kernel find S4 image and try to restore S4 image;
> f, 2nd kernel disable non-boot CPUs, which would disable NMI watchdog for
> APs;
> g, Restore S4 image saved at step c;
> h, 1st-hibernated kernel restore, re-enable non-boot CPUs, as NMI watchdog
> is disabled in step b, this which would keep APs NMI watchdog disabled;
> Besides, the variable active_events is restored to zero;
> 
> But BSP NMI watchdog is still enabled, and the PMC will trigger NMI
> interrupt periodically.
> If PMC NMI triggered, perf_event_nmi_handler will be called, but it would
> see active_events is zero, so it goes out directly and return NMI_DONE;
> This then leads to unknown NMI messages.
> 
> static int
> perf_event_nmi_handler(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
>        u64 start_clock;
>        u64 finish_clock;
>        int ret;
> 
>        /*
>        * All PMUs/events that share this PMI handler should make sure to
>        * increment active_events for their events.
>        */
>        if (!atomic_read(&active_events))
>               return NMI_DONE;
> ......
> 
> It seems that the BSP does not refer to the settings of the NMI watchdog sys
> interface previously saved to the S4 image to configure the NMI watchdog
> when doing S4 resume.
> Should consider this situation and patch it?

Yes, please.

The watchdog driver should get suspend/resume hooks, and probably do
same init on boot and on resume.

Best regards,

								Pavel
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