Softlockup report means that there is no progress on the given CPU. It
might be a "short" affair where the system gets recovered. But often
the system stops being responsive and need to get rebooted.
The softlockup might be root of the problems or just a symptom. It might
be a deadlock, livelock, or often repeated state.
Regular reports help to distinguish different situations. Fortunately,
the watchdog is finally able to show correct information how long
softlockup_fn() was not scheduled.
Note that the horrible code never really worked before the accounting
was fixed. The last working timestamp was regularly lost by the many
touch*watchdog() calls.
Also note that the full report is useful to distinguish livelock
and deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 25 +------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index bd249676ee3d..2058229ed398 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -173,10 +173,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_period_ts);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, watchdog_hrtimer);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_restart_period);
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, soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_task_ptr_saved);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved);
static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
@@ -268,7 +266,6 @@ static void __touch_watchdog(void)
{
__this_cpu_write(watchdog_touch_ts, get_timestamp());
__restart_watchdog_period();
- __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false);
}
/**
@@ -429,31 +426,13 @@ 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) {
- /*
- * When multiple processes are causing softlockups the
- * softlockup detector only warns on the first one
- * because the code relies on a full quiet cycle to
- * re-arm. The second process prevents the quiet cycle
- * and never gets reported. Use task pointers to detect
- * this.
- */
- if (__this_cpu_read(softlockup_task_ptr_saved) !=
- current) {
- __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false);
- __restart_watchdog_period();
- }
- 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);
+ __restart_watchdog_period();
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
}
}
@@ -461,7 +440,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct
hrtimer *hrtimer)
pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
smp_processor_id(), duration,
current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
- __this_cpu_write(softlockup_task_ptr_saved, current);
print_modules();
print_irqtrace_events(current);
if (regs)
@@ -483,7 +461,6 @@ 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);
}
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
--
2.16.4
