From 7edaeb6841dfb27e362288ab8466ebdc4972e867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:50:13 +0200 Subject: kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes The hardlockup detector on x86 uses a performance counter based on unhalted CPU cycles and a periodic hrtimer. The hrtimer period is about 2/5 of the performance counter period, so the hrtimer should fire 2-3 times before the performance counter NMI fires. The NMI code checks whether the hrtimer fired since the last invocation. If not, it assumess a hard lockup. The calculation of those periods is based on the nominal CPU frequency. Turbo modes increase the CPU clock frequency and therefore shorten the period of the perf/NMI watchdog. With extreme Turbo-modes (3x nominal frequency) the perf/NMI period is shorter than the hrtimer period which leads to false positives. A simple fix would be to shorten the hrtimer period, but that comes with the side effect of more frequent hrtimer and softlockup thread wakeups, which is not desired. Implement a low pass filter, which checks the perf/NMI period against kernel time. If the perf/NMI fires before 4/5 of the watchdog period has elapsed then the event is ignored and postponed to the next perf/NMI. That solves the problem and avoids the overhead of shorter hrtimer periods and more frequent softlockup thread wakeups. Fixes: 58687acba592 ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector") Reported-and-tested-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: babu.moger@oracle.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: atomlin@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150931310.1886@nanos --- include/linux/nmi.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h index 8aa01fd859fb..a36abe2da13e 100644 --- a/include/linux/nmi.h +++ b/include/linux/nmi.h @@ -168,6 +168,14 @@ extern int sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace; #define sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0 #define sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0 #endif + +#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP) && \ + defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) +void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period); +#else +static inline void watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(u64 period) { } +#endif + extern bool is_hardlockup(void); struct ctl_table; extern int proc_watchdog(struct ctl_table *, int , -- cgit