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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 92 |
1 files changed, 61 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index f37f974aa81b..7daa4b072e9f 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/perf_event.h> int watchdog_enabled = 1; -int __read_mostly softlockup_thresh = 60; +int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_touch_ts); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_watchdog); @@ -48,12 +48,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev); * Should we panic when a soft-lockup or hard-lockup occurs: */ #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR -static int hardlockup_panic; +static int hardlockup_panic = + CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE; static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str) { if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5)) hardlockup_panic = 1; + else if (!strncmp(str, "nopanic", 7)) + hardlockup_panic = 0; else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1)) watchdog_enabled = 0; return 1; @@ -88,6 +91,17 @@ static int __init nosoftlockup_setup(char *str) __setup("nosoftlockup", nosoftlockup_setup); /* */ +/* + * Hard-lockup warnings should be triggered after just a few seconds. Soft- + * lockups can have false positives under extreme conditions. So we generally + * want a higher threshold for soft lockups than for hard lockups. So we couple + * the thresholds with a factor: we make the soft threshold twice the amount of + * time the hard threshold is. + */ +static int get_softlockup_thresh(void) +{ + return watchdog_thresh * 2; +} /* * Returns seconds, approximately. We don't need nanosecond @@ -102,12 +116,12 @@ static unsigned long get_timestamp(int this_cpu) static unsigned long get_sample_period(void) { /* - * convert softlockup_thresh from seconds to ns + * convert watchdog_thresh from seconds to ns * the divide by 5 is to give hrtimer 5 chances to * increment before the hardlockup detector generates * a warning */ - return softlockup_thresh / 5 * NSEC_PER_SEC; + return get_softlockup_thresh() * (NSEC_PER_SEC / 5); } /* Commands for resetting the watchdog */ @@ -179,7 +193,7 @@ static int is_softlockup(unsigned long touch_ts) unsigned long now = get_timestamp(smp_processor_id()); /* Warn about unreasonable delays: */ - if (time_after(now, touch_ts + softlockup_thresh)) + if (time_after(now, touch_ts + get_softlockup_thresh())) return now - touch_ts; return 0; @@ -356,15 +370,21 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) /* Try to register using hardware perf events */ wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr; - wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(); + wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh); event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback); if (!IS_ERR(event)) { printk(KERN_INFO "NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n"); goto out_save; } - printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n", - cpu, PTR_ERR(event)); + + /* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */ + if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP) + printk(KERN_INFO "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): not supported (no LAPIC?)\n", cpu); + else if (PTR_ERR(event) == -ENOENT) + printk(KERN_WARNING "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): hardware events not enabled\n", cpu); + else + printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): unable to create perf event: %ld\n", cpu, PTR_ERR(event)); return PTR_ERR(event); /* success path */ @@ -409,19 +429,25 @@ static int watchdog_prepare_cpu(int cpu) static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) { struct task_struct *p = per_cpu(softlockup_watchdog, cpu); - int err; + int err = 0; /* enable the perf event */ err = watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu); - if (err) - return err; + + /* Regardless of err above, fall through and start softlockup */ /* create the watchdog thread */ if (!p) { p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) { printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu); - return PTR_ERR(p); + if (!err) { + /* if hardlockup hasn't already set this */ + err = PTR_ERR(p); + /* and disable the perf event */ + watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu); + } + goto out; } kthread_bind(p, cpu); per_cpu(watchdog_touch_ts, cpu) = 0; @@ -429,7 +455,8 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) wake_up_process(p); } - return 0; +out: + return err; } static void watchdog_disable(int cpu) @@ -485,28 +512,25 @@ static void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void) /* sysctl functions */ #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL /* - * proc handler for /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog + * proc handler for /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog,watchdog_thresh */ -int proc_dowatchdog_enabled(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) +int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + int ret; - if (write) { - if (watchdog_enabled) - watchdog_enable_all_cpus(); - else - watchdog_disable_all_cpus(); - } - return 0; -} + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + if (ret || !write) + goto out; -int proc_dowatchdog_thresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void __user *buffer, - size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) -{ - return proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + if (watchdog_enabled && watchdog_thresh) + watchdog_enable_all_cpus(); + else + watchdog_disable_all_cpus(); + +out: + return ret; } #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */ @@ -541,7 +565,13 @@ cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) break; #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ } - return notifier_from_errno(err); + + /* + * hardlockup and softlockup are not important enough + * to block cpu bring up. Just always succeed and + * rely on printk output to flag problems. + */ + return NOTIFY_OK; } static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata cpu_nfb = { |