[RFC PATCH 17/23] watchdog/hardlockup/hpet: Convert the timer's interrupt to NMI

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:57:37PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:

+static bool is_hpet_wdt_interrupt(struct hpet_hld_data *hdata)
+{
+       unsigned long this_isr;
+       unsigned int lvl_trig;
+
+       this_isr = hpet_readl(HPET_STATUS) & BIT(hdata->num);
+
+       lvl_trig = hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CFG(hdata->num)) & HPET_TN_LEVEL;
+
+       if (lvl_trig && this_isr)
+               return true;
+
+       return false;
+}

> +static int hardlockup_detector_nmi_handler(unsigned int val,
> +					   struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	struct hpet_hld_data *hdata = hld_data;
> +	unsigned int use_fsb;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If FSB delivery mode is used, the timer interrupt is programmed as
> +	 * edge-triggered and there is no need to check the ISR register.
> +	 */
> +	use_fsb = hdata->flags & HPET_DEV_FSB_CAP;

Please do explain.. That FSB thing basically means MSI. But there's only
a single NMI vector. How do we know this NMI came from the HPET?

> +
> +	if (!use_fsb && !is_hpet_wdt_interrupt(hdata))

So you add _2_ HPET reads for every single NMI that gets triggered...
and IIRC HPET reads are _sllooooowwwwww_.

> +		return NMI_DONE;
> +
> +	inspect_for_hardlockups(regs);
> +
> +	if (!(hdata->flags & HPET_DEV_PERI_CAP))
> +		kick_timer(hdata);
> +
> +	/* Acknowledge interrupt if in level-triggered mode */
> +	if (!use_fsb)
> +		hpet_writel(BIT(hdata->num), HPET_STATUS);
> +
> +	return NMI_HANDLED;

So if I read this right, when in FSB/MSI mode, we'll basically _always_
claim every single NMI as handled?

That's broken.

> +}