- 06 Nov, 2015 40 commits
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Raghavendra K T authored
The functions used in the patch are in slowpath, which gets called whenever alloc_super is called during mounts. Though this should not make difference for the architectures with sequential numa node ids, for the powerpc which can potentially have sparse node ids (for e.g., 4 node system having numa ids, 0,1,16,17 is common), this patch saves some unnecessary allocations for non existing numa nodes. Even without that saving, perhaps patch makes code more readable. [vdavydov@parallels.com: take memcg_aware check outside for_each loop] Signed-off-by:
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jonathan Corbet authored
get_vaddr_frames() has a comment that's *almost* a docbook comment; add the missing star so that the tools will find it properly. Signed-off-by:
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
__memcg_kmem_bypass() decides whether a kmem allocation should be bypassed to the root memcg. Some conditions that it tests are valid criteria regarding who should be held accountable; however, there are a couple unnecessary tests for cold paths - __GFP_FAIL and fatal_signal_pending(). The previous patch updated try_charge() to handle both __GFP_FAIL and dying tasks correctly and the only thing these two tests are doing is making accounting less accurate and sprinkling tests for cold path conditions in the hot paths. There's nothing meaningful gained by these extra tests. This patch removes the two unnecessary tests from __memcg_kmem_bypass(). Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
try_charge() is the main charging logic of memcg. When it hits the limit but either can't fail the allocation due to __GFP_NOFAIL or the task is likely to free memory very soon, being OOM killed, has SIGKILL pending or exiting, it "bypasses" the charge to the root memcg and returns -EINTR. While this is one approach which can be taken for these situations, it has several issues. * It unnecessarily lies about the reality. The number itself doesn't go over the limit but the actual usage does. memcg is either forced to or actively chooses to go over the limit because that is the right behavior under the circumstances, which is completely fine, but, if at all avoidable, it shouldn't be misrepresenting what's happening by sneaking the charges into the root memcg. * Despite trying, we already do over-charge. kmemcg can't deal with switching over to the root memcg by the point try_charge() returns -EINTR, so it open-codes over-charing. * It complicates the callers. Each try_charge() user has to handle the weird -EINTR exception. memcg_charge_kmem() does the manual over-charging. mem_cgroup_do_precharge() performs unnecessary uncharging of root memcg, which BTW is inconsistent with what memcg_charge_kmem() does but not broken as [un]charging are noops on root memcg. mem_cgroup_try_charge() needs to switch the returned cgroup to the root one. The reality is that in memcg there are cases where we are forced and/or willing to go over the limit. Each such case needs to be scrutinized and justified but there definitely are situations where that is the right thing to do. We alredy do this but with a superficial and inconsistent disguise which leads to unnecessary complications. This patch updates try_charge() so that it over-charges and returns 0 when deemed necessary. -EINTR return is removed along with all special case handling in the callers. While at it, remove the local variable @ret, which was initialized to zero and never changed, along with done: label which just returned the always zero @ret. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
memcg_kmem_newpage_charge() and memcg_kmem_get_cache() are testing the same series of conditions to decide whether to bypass kmem accounting. Collect the tests into __memcg_kmem_bypass(). This is pure refactoring. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Currently, try_charge() tries to reclaim memory synchronously when the high limit is breached; however, if the allocation doesn't have __GFP_WAIT, synchronous reclaim is skipped. If a process performs only speculative allocations, it can blow way past the high limit. This is actually easily reproducible by simply doing "find /". slab/slub allocator tries speculative allocations first, so as long as there's memory which can be consumed without blocking, it can keep allocating memory regardless of the high limit. This patch makes try_charge() always punt the over-high reclaim to the return-to-userland path. If try_charge() detects that high limit is breached, it adds the overage to current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high and schedules execution of mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() which performs synchronous reclaim from the return-to-userland path. As long as kernel doesn't have a run-away allocation spree, this should provide enough protection while making kmemcg behave more consistently. It also has the following benefits. - All over-high reclaims can use GFP_KERNEL regardless of the specific gfp mask in use, e.g. GFP_NOFS, when the limit was breached. - It copes with prio inversion. Previously, a low-prio task with small memory.high might perform over-high reclaim with a bunch of locks held. If a higher prio task needed any of these locks, it would have to wait until the low prio task finished reclaim and released the locks. By handing over-high reclaim to the task exit path this issue can be avoided. Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
task_struct->memcg_oom is a sub-struct containing fields which are used for async memcg oom handling. Most task_struct fields aren't packaged this way and it can lead to unnecessary alignment paddings. This patch flattens it. * task.memcg_oom.memcg -> task.memcg_in_oom * task.memcg_oom.gfp_mask -> task.memcg_oom_gfp_mask * task.memcg_oom.order -> task.memcg_oom_order * task.memcg_oom.may_oom -> task.memcg_may_oom In addition, task.memcg_may_oom is relocated to where other bitfields are which reduces the size of task_struct. Signed-off-by:
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Chen Gang authored
Before the main loop, vma is already is NULL. There is no need to set it to NULL again. Signed-off-by:
Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
probe_kernel_address() is basically the same as the (later added) probe_kernel_read(). The return value on EFAULT is a bit different: probe_kernel_address() returns number-of-bytes-not-copied whereas probe_kernel_read() returns -EFAULT. All callers have been checked, none cared. probe_kernel_read() can be overridden by the architecture whereas probe_kernel_address() cannot. parisc, blackfin and um do this, to insert additional checking. Hence this patch possibly fixes obscure bugs, although there are only two probe_kernel_address() callsites outside arch/. My first attempt involved removing probe_kernel_address() entirely and converting all callsites to use probe_kernel_read() directly, but that got tiresome. This patch shrinks mm/slab_common.o by 218 bytes. For a single probe_kernel_address() callsite. Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Klimov authored
In mlockall syscall wrapper after out-label for goto code just doing return. Remove goto out statements and return error values directly. Also instead of rewriting ret variable before every if-check move returns to 'error'-like path under if-check. Objdump asm listing showed me reducing by few asm lines. Object file size descreased from 220592 bytes to 220528 bytes for me (for aarch64). Signed-off-by:
Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Klimov authored
Few lines below object is reinitialized by lookup_object() so we don't need to init it by NULL in the beginning of find_and_get_object(). Signed-off-by:
Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@linaro.org> Acked-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Catalin Marinas authored
On systems with a KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE of 128 (arm64, some mips and powerpc configurations defining ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128), the first kmalloc_caches[] entry to be initialised after slab_early_init = 0 is "kmalloc-128" with index 7. Depending on the debug kernel configuration, sizeof(struct kmem_cache) can be larger than 128 resulting in an INDEX_NODE of 8. Commit 8fc9cf42 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab") enables off-slab management objects for sizes starting with PAGE_SIZE >> 5 (128 bytes for a 4KB page configuration) and the creation of the "kmalloc-128" cache would try to place the management objects off-slab. However, since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is already 128 and freelist_size == 32 in __kmem_cache_create(), kmalloc_slab(freelist_size) returns NULL (kmalloc_caches[7] not populated yet). This triggers the following bug on arm64: kernel BUG at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/mm/slab.c:2283! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ #540 Hardware name: Juno (DT) PC is at __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280 LR is at __kmem_cache_create+0x210/0x280 [...] Call trace: __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280 create_boot_cache+0x48/0x80 create_kmalloc_cache+0x50/0x88 create_kmalloc_caches+0x4c/0xf4 kmem_cache_init+0x100/0x118 start_kernel+0x214/0x33c This patch introduces an OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE definition to avoid off-slab management objects for sizes equal to or smaller than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE. Fixes: 8fc9cf42 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab") Signed-off-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.15+] Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
In slub_order(), the order starts from max(min_order, get_order(min_objects * size)). When (min_objects * size) has different order from (min_objects * size + reserved), it will skip this order via a check in the loop. This patch optimizes this a little by calculating the start order with `reserved' in consideration and removing the check in loop. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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Wei Yang authored
get_order() is more easy to understand. This patch just replaces it. Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
In calculate_order(), it tries to calculate the best order by adjusting the fraction and min_objects. On each iteration on min_objects, fraction iterates on 16, 8, 4. Which means the acceptable waste increases with 1/16, 1/8, 1/4. This patch corrects the comment according to the code. Signed-off-by:
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Alexandru Moise authored
The assignment to NULL within the error condition was written in a 2014 patch to suppress a compiler warning. However it would be cleaner to just initialize the kmem_cache to NULL and just return it in case of an error condition. Signed-off-by:
Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Add documentation on how to use slabinfo-gnuplot.sh script. Signed-off-by:
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
GNUplot `slabinfo -X' stats, collected, for example, using the following command: while [ 1 ]; do slabinfo -X >> stats; sleep 1; done `slabinfo-gnuplot.sh stats' pre-processes collected records and generate graphs (totals, slabs sorted by size, slabs sorted by size). Graphs can be [individually] regenerate with different samples range and graph width-heigh (-r %d,%d and -s %d,%d options). To visually compare N `totals' graphs: slabinfo-gnuplot.sh -t FILE1-totals FILE2-totals ... FILEN-totals Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
checkpatch.pl complains about globals being explicitly zeroed out: "ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL". New globals, introduced in this patch set, have no explicit 0 initialization; clean up the old ones to make it less hairy. Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Introduce "-B|--Bytes" opt to disable store_size() dynamic size scaling and report size in bytes instead. This `expands' the interface a bit, it's impossible to use printf("%6s") anymore to output sizes. Example: slabinfo -X -N 2 Slabcache Totals ---------------- Slabcaches : 91 Aliases : 119->69 Active: 63 Memory used: 199798784 # Loss : 10689376 MRatio: 5% # Objects : 324301 # PartObj: 18151 ORatio: 5% Per Cache Average Min Max Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Objects 5147 1 89068 324301 #Slabs 199 1 3886 12537 #PartSlab 12 0 240 778 %PartSlab 32% 0% 100% 6% PartObjs 5 0 4569 18151 % PartObj 26% 0% 100% 5% Memory 3171409 8192 127336448 199798784 Used 3001736 160 121429728 189109408 Loss 169672 0 5906720 10689376 Per Object Average Min Max ----------------------------------------------------------- Memory 585 8 8192 User 583 8 8192 Loss 2 0 64 Slabs sorted by size -------------------- Name Objects Objsize Space Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 69948 1736 127336448 3871/0/15 18 3 0 95 a dentry 89068 288 26058752 3164/0/17 28 1 0 98 a Slabs sorted by loss -------------------- Name Objects Objsize Loss Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 69948 1736 5906720 3871/0/15 18 3 0 95 a inode_cache 11628 864 537472 642/0/4 18 2 0 94 a Besides, store_size() does not use powers of two for G/M/K if (value > 1000000000UL) { divisor = 100000000UL; trailer = 'G'; } else if (value > 1000000UL) { divisor = 100000UL; trailer = 'M'; } else if (value > 1000UL) { divisor = 100; trailer = 'K'; } Signed-off-by: -
Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Add "-X|--Xtotals" opt to output extended totals summary, which includes: -- totals summary -- slabs sorted by size -- slabs sorted by loss (waste) Example: ======= slabinfo --X -N 1 Slabcache Totals ---------------- Slabcaches : 91 Aliases : 120->69 Active: 65 Memory used: 568.3M # Loss : 30.4M MRatio: 5% # Objects : 920.1K # PartObj: 161.2K ORatio: 17% Per Cache Average Min Max Total --------------------------------------------------------- #Objects 14.1K 1 227.8K 920.1K #Slabs 533 1 11.7K 34.7K #PartSlab 86 0 4.3K 5.6K %PartSlab 24% 0% 100% 16% PartObjs 17 0 129.3K 161.2K % PartObj 17% 0% 100% 17% Memory 8.7M 8.1K 384.7M 568.3M Used 8.2M 160 366.5M 537.9M Loss 468.8K 0 18.2M 30.4M Per Object Average Min Max --------------------------------------------- Memory 587 8 8.1K User 584 8 8.1K Loss 2 0 64 Slabs sorted by size ---------------------- Name Objects Objsize Space Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 211142 1736 384.7M 11732/40/10 18 3 0 95 a Slabs sorted by loss ---------------------- Name Objects Objsize Loss Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 211142 1736 18.2M 11732/40/10 18 3 0 95 a Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Fix mismatches between usage() output and real opts[] options. Add missing alternative opt names, e.g., '-S' had no '--Size' opts[] entry, etc. Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Introduce opt "-L|--sort-loss" to sort and output slabs by loss (waste) in slabcache(). Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Introduce opt "-N|--lines=K" to limit the number of slabs being reported in output_slabs(). Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
This patchset adds 'extended' slabinfo mode that provides additional information: -- totals summary -- slabs sorted by size -- slabs sorted by loss (waste) The patches also introduces several new slabinfo options to limit the number of slabs reported, sort slabs by loss (waste); and some fixes. Extended output example (slabinfo -X -N 2): Slabcache Totals ---------------- Slabcaches : 91 Aliases : 119->69 Active: 63 Memory used: 199798784 # Loss : 10689376 MRatio: 5% # Objects : 324301 # PartObj: 18151 ORatio: 5% Per Cache Average Min Max Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Objects 5147 1 89068 324301 #Slabs 199 1 3886 12537 #PartSlab 12 0 240 778 %PartSlab 32% 0% 100% 6% PartObjs 5 0 4569 18151 % PartObj 26% 0% 100% 5% Memory 3171409 8192 127336448 199798784 Used 3001736 160 121429728 189109408 Loss 169672 0 5906720 10689376 Per Object Average Min Max ----------------------------------------------------------- Memory 585 8 8192 User 583 8 8192 Loss 2 0 64 Slabs sorted by size -------------------- Name Objects Objsize Space Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 69948 1736 127336448 3871/0/15 18 3 0 95 a dentry 89068 288 26058752 3164/0/17 28 1 0 98 a Slabs sorted by loss -------------------- Name Objects Objsize Loss Slabs/Part/Cpu O/S O %Fr %Ef Flg ext4_inode_cache 69948 1736 5906720 3871/0/15 18 3 0 95 a inode_cache 11628 864 537472 642/0/4 18 2 0 94 a The last patch in the series addresses Linus' comment from http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=144148518703321&w=2 (well, it's been some time. sorry.) gnuplot script takes the slabinfo records file, where every record is a `slabinfo -X' output. So the basic workflow is, for example, as follows: while [ 1 ]; do slabinfo -X -N 2 >> stats; sleep 1; done ^C slabinfo-gnuplot.sh stats The last command will produce 3 png files (and 3 stats files) -- graph of slabinfo totals -- graph of slabs by size -- graph of slabs by loss It's also possible to select a range of records for plotting (a range of collected slabinfo outputs) via `-r 10,100` (for example); and compare totals from several measurements (to visially compare slabs behaviour (10,50 range)) using pre-parsed totals files: slabinfo-gnuplot.sh -r 10,50 -t stats-totals1 .. stats-totals2 This also, technically, supports ktest. Upload new slabinfo to target, collect the stats and give the resulting stats file to slabinfo-gnuplot This patch (of 8): Use getopt constants in `struct option' ->has_arg instead of numerical representations. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently, when kmem_cache_destroy() is called for a global cache, we print a warning for each per memcg cache attached to it that has active objects (see shutdown_cache). This is redundant, because it gives no new information and only clutters the log. If a cache being destroyed has active objects, there must be a memory leak in the module that created the cache, and it does not matter if the cache was used by users in memory cgroups or not. This patch moves the warning from shutdown_cache(), which is called for shutting down both global and per memcg caches, to kmem_cache_destroy(), so that the warning is only printed once if there are objects left in the cache being destroyed. Signed-off-by:
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently, we do not clear pointers to per memcg caches in the memcg_params.memcg_caches array when a global cache is destroyed with kmem_cache_destroy. This is fine if the global cache does get destroyed. However, a cache can be left on the list if it still has active objects when kmem_cache_destroy is called (due to a memory leak). If this happens, the entries in the array will point to already freed areas, which is likely to result in data corruption when the cache is reused (via slab merging). Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
do_kmem_cache_create(), do_kmem_cache_shutdown(), and do_kmem_cache_release() sound awkward for static helper functions that are not supposed to be used outside slab_common.c. Rename them to create_cache(), shutdown_cache(), and release_caches(), respectively. This patch is a pure cleanup and does not introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by:
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The patch "slab.h: sprinkle __assume_aligned attributes" causes *tons* of whinges if you do 'make C=2' with sparse 0.5.0: CHECK drivers/media/usb/pwc/pwc-if.c include/linux/slab.h:307:43: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:308:58: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:337:73: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:375:74: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:378:80: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute sparse apparently pretends to be gcc >= 4.9, yet isn't prepared to handle all the function attributes supported by those gccs and complains loudly. So hide the definition of __assume_aligned from it (so that the generic one in compiler.h gets used). Signed-off-by:
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reported-by:
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-By:
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
gcc 4.9 added the function attribute assume_aligned, indicating to the caller that the returned pointer may be assumed to have a certain minimal alignment. This is useful if, for example, the return value is passed to memset(). Add a shorthand macro for that. Signed-off-by:
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Denis Kirjanov authored
A good candidate to return a boolean result. Signed-off-by:
Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by:
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Ulrich Obergfell authored
Theoretically it is possible that the watchdog timer expires right at the time when a user sets 'watchdog_thresh' to zero (note: this disables the lockup detectors). In this scenario, the is_softlockup() function - which is called by the timer - could produce a false positive. Fix this by checking the current value of 'watchdog_thresh'. Signed-off-by:
Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ulrich Obergfell authored
watchdog_{park|unpark}_threads() are now called in code paths that protect themselves against CPU hotplug, so {get|put}_online_cpus() calls are redundant and can be removed. Signed-off-by: -
Ulrich Obergfell authored
The handler functions for watchdog parameters in /proc/sys/kernel do not protect themselves against races with CPU hotplug. Hence, theoretically it is possible that a new watchdog thread is started on a hotplugged CPU while a parameter is being modified, and the thread could thus use a parameter value that is 'in transition'. For example, if 'watchdog_thresh' is being set to zero (note: this disables the lockup detectors) the thread would erroneously use the value zero as the sample period. To avoid such races and to keep the /proc handler code consistent, call {get|put}_online_cpus() in proc_watchdog_common() {get|put}_online_cpus() in proc_watchdog_thresh() {get|put}_online_cpus() in proc_watchdog_cpumask() Signed-off-by: -
Ulrich Obergfell authored
The lockup detector suspend/resume interface that was introduced by commit 8c073d27 ("watchdog: introduce watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume()") does not protect itself against races with CPU hotplug. Hence, theoretically it is possible that a new watchdog thread is started on a hotplugged CPU while the lockup detector is suspended, and the thread could thus interfere unexpectedly with the code that requested to suspend the lockup detector. Avoid the race by calling get_online_cpus() in lockup_detector_suspend() put_online_cpus() in lockup_detector_resume() Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
The only way to enable a hardlockup to panic the machine is to set 'nmi_watchdog=panic' on the kernel command line. This makes it awkward for end users and folks who want to run automate tests (like myself). Mimic the softlockup_panic knob and create a /proc/sys/kernel/hardlockup_panic knob. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
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Jiri Kosina authored
In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding. IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the actual offender. Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace. Signed-off-by:
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Ulrich Obergfell authored
If kthread_park() returns an error, watchdog_park_threads() should not blindly 'roll back' the already parked threads to the unparked state. Instead leave it up to the callers to handle such errors appropriately in their context. For example, it is redundant to unpark the threads if the lockup detectors will soon be disabled by the callers anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Ulrich Obergfell authored
lockup_detector_suspend() now handles errors from watchdog_park_threads(). Signed-off-by:
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Ulrich Obergfell authored
update_watchdog_all_cpus() now passes errors from watchdog_park_threads() up to functions in the call chain. This allows watchdog_enable_all_cpus() and proc_watchdog_update() to handle such errors too. Signed-off-by:
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