From patchwork Mon May 17 14:00:21 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg Kroah-Hartman X-Patchwork-Id: 440851 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CCDC433ED for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C01B6100B for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236547AbhEQOxM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2021 10:53:12 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41092 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S240444AbhEQOvL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2021 10:51:11 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90F7E61460; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:23:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1621261406; bh=xtG7WbmAe5GyHpRvMmugAktrglxWiM55d6rGpGh9mqI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=IKX1Yo1hxJwmncYAp7K/33pYlJbKARTjUVfDXILzF8m/ljAFYP3I1So+LQGGzVQMp Z45Hyn+HpkoAf7zp6XcUGVXYKF5Rjkf5uPZzADDwyGSJaESORGrLDtrzgS91tKBwNc k5m6rGZHdh9pw0f/7t+uAwLyOtYOCecvsLUawr3k= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek , Ingo Molnar , Laurence Oberman , Michal Hocko , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Vincent Whitchurch , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.11 110/329] watchdog/softlockup: remove logic that tried to prevent repeated reports Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 16:00:21 +0200 Message-Id: <20210517140305.836565674@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210517140302.043055203@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210517140302.043055203@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Petr Mladek [ Upstream commit 1bc503cb4a2638fb1c57801a7796aca57845ce63 ] The softlockup detector does some gymnastic with the variable soft_watchdog_warn. It was added by the commit 58687acba59266735ad ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector"). The purpose is not completely clear. There are the following clues. They describe the situation how it looked after the above mentioned commit: 1. The variable was checked with a comment "only warn once". 2. The variable was set when softlockup was reported. It was cleared only when the CPU was not longer in the softlockup state. 3. watchdog_touch_ts was not explicitly updated when the softlockup was reported. Without this variable, the report would normally be printed again during every following watchdog_timer_fn() invocation. The logic has got even more tangled up by the commit ed235875e2ca98 ("kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection"). After this commit, soft_watchdog_warn is set only when softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace is enabled. But multiple reports from all CPUs are prevented by a new variable soft_lockup_nmi_warn. Conclusion: The variable probably never worked as intended. In each case, it has not worked last many years because the softlockup was reported repeatedly after the full period defined by watchdog_thresh. The reason is that watchdog gets touched in many known slow paths, for example, in printk_stack_address(). This code is called also when printing the softlockup report. It means that the watchdog timestamp gets updated after each report. Solution: Simply remove the logic. People want the periodic report anyway. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-5-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Laurence Oberman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vincent Whitchurch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/watchdog.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 7776d53a015c..122e272ad7f2 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ static u64 __read_mostly sample_period; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_touch_ts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, watchdog_hrtimer); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, softlockup_touch_sync); -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, soft_watchdog_warn); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved); static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn; @@ -394,19 +393,12 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) if (kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused()) return HRTIMER_RESTART; - /* only warn once */ - if (__this_cpu_read(soft_watchdog_warn) == true) - return HRTIMER_RESTART; - if (softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace) { /* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already * engaged in dumping cpu back traces */ - if (test_and_set_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn)) { - /* Someone else will report us. Let's give up */ - __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, true); + if (test_and_set_bit(0, &soft_lockup_nmi_warn)) return HRTIMER_RESTART; - } } /* Start period for the next softlockup warning. */ @@ -436,9 +428,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) add_taint(TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK); if (softlockup_panic) panic("softlockup: hung tasks"); - __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, true); - } else - __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false); + } return HRTIMER_RESTART; }