Patch series "watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups".
When we get multiple lockups at roughly the same time, the output in the
kernel logs can be very confusing since the reports about the lockups end
up interleaved in the logs. There is some code in the kernel to try to
handle this but it wasn't that complete.
Li Zhe recently made this a bit better for softlockups (specifically for
the case where `kernel.softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace` is not set) in commit
9d02330abd ("softlockup: serialized softlockup's log"), but that only
handled softlockup reports. Hardlockup reports still had similar issues.
This series also has a small fix to avoid dumping all stacks a second time
in the case of a panic. This is a bit unrelated to the interleaving fixes
but it does also improve the clarity of lockup reports.
This patch (of 4):
The hardlockup detector and softlockup detector both have the ability to
dump the stack of all CPUs (`kernel.hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace` and
`kernel.softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace`). Both detectors also have some
logic to attempt to avoid interleaving printouts if two CPUs were trying
to do dumps of all CPUs at the same time. However:
- The hardlockup detector's logic still allowed interleaving some
information. Specifically another CPU could print modules and dump
the stack of the locked CPU at the same time we were dumping all
CPUs.
- In the case where `kernel.hardlockup_panic` was set in addition to
`kernel.hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace`, when two CPUs both detected
hardlockups at the same time the second CPU could call panic() while
the first was still dumping stacks. This was especially bad if the
locked up CPU wasn't responding to the request for a backtrace since
the function nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() can wait up to 10
seconds.
Let's resolve this by adopting the softlockup logic in the hardlockup
handler.
NOTES:
- As part of this, one might think that we should make a helper
function that both the hard and softlockup detectors call. This
turns out not to be super trivial since it would have to be
parameterized quite a bit since there are separate global variables
controlling each lockup detector and they print log messages that
are just different enough that it would be a pain. We probably don't
want to change the messages that are printed without good reason to
avoid throwing log parsers for a loop.
- One might also think that it would be a good idea to have the
hardlockup and softlockup detector use the same global variable to
prevent interleaving. This would make sure that softlockups and
hardlockups can't interleave each other. That _almost_ works but has
a dangerous flaw if `kernel.hardlockup_panic` is not the same as
`kernel.softlockup_panic` because we might skip a call to panic() if
one type of lockup was detected at the same time as another.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220211640.2023645-1-dianders@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220131534.1.I4f35a69fbb124b5f0c71f75c631e11fabbe188ff@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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