[PATCH v6 18/29] watchdog/hardlockup: Define a generic function to detect hardlockups

Ricardo Neri ricardo.neri-calderon at linux.intel.com
Fri May 6 09:59:57 AEST 2022


The procedure to detect hardlockups is independent of the underlying
mechanism that generates the non-maskable interrupt used to drive the
detector. Thus, it can be put in a separate, generic function. In this
manner, it can be invoked by various implementations of the NMI watchdog.

For this purpose, move the bulk of watchdog_overflow_callback() to the
new function inspect_for_hardlockups(). This function can then be called
from the applicable NMI handlers. No functional changes.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar at intel.com>
Cc: iommu at lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon at linux.intel.com>
---
Changes since v5:
 * None

Changes since v4:
 * None

Changes since v3:
 * None

Changes since v2:
 * None

Changes since v1:
 * None
---
 include/linux/nmi.h   |  1 +
 kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 750c7f395ca9..1b68f48ad440 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ int proc_nmi_watchdog(struct ctl_table *, int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int proc_soft_watchdog(struct ctl_table *, int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_table *, int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int proc_watchdog_cpumask(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+void inspect_for_hardlockups(struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
index 247bf0b1582c..b352e507b17f 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
@@ -106,14 +106,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr wd_hw_attr = {
 	.disabled	= 1,
 };
 
-/* Callback function for perf event subsystem */
-static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
-				       struct perf_sample_data *data,
-				       struct pt_regs *regs)
+void inspect_for_hardlockups(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	/* Ensure the watchdog never gets throttled */
-	event->hw.interrupts = 0;
-
 	if (__this_cpu_read(watchdog_nmi_touch) == true) {
 		__this_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, false);
 		return;
@@ -163,6 +157,16 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
 	return;
 }
 
+/* Callback function for perf event subsystem */
+static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
+				       struct perf_sample_data *data,
+				       struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	/* Ensure the watchdog never gets throttled */
+	event->hw.interrupts = 0;
+	inspect_for_hardlockups(regs);
+}
+
 static int hardlockup_detector_event_create(void)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-- 
2.17.1



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