kernel/watchdog.c: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup

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: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6263a2da3e2f1a999b7a92d5f5154d482309dfce..0231f4508abe822907ab0eea7ab121e02cc81788 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1269,6 +1269,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
                        Default: 1024
 
+       hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
+                       [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
+                       backtraces on all cpus.
+                       Format: <integer>
+
        hashdist=       [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
                        are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
                        for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 6fccb69c03e747c2eb713a1256676c8fa44f2349..af70d1541d3af5b18834bce320ddd3e37009d29b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - domainname
 - hostname
 - hotplug
+- hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace
 - hung_task_panic
 - hung_task_check_count
 - hung_task_timeout_secs
@@ -292,6 +293,17 @@ Information Service) or YP (Yellow Pages) domainname. These two
 domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion
 see the hostname(1) man page.
 
+==============================================================
+hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace:
+
+This value controls the hard lockup detector behavior when a hard
+lockup condition is detected as to whether or not to gather further
+debug information. If enabled, arch-specific all-CPU stack dumping
+will be initiated.
+
+0: do nothing. This is the default behavior.
+
+1: on detection capture more debug information.
 ==============================================================
 
 hotplug:

diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 78488e099ce7a4263dff9f9a08fa2e39f60f0e49..7ec5b86735f33d512a27086635ac15a221039101 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ extern int watchdog_user_enabled;
 extern int watchdog_thresh;
 extern unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits;
 extern int sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
+extern int sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
 struct ctl_table;
 extern int proc_watchdog(struct ctl_table *, int ,
                         void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 96c856b040819e30f5e9d4dad4ac396569f0eba0..1a5faa3e15218ddc1e6684c101eb1370546f6e13 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -898,6 +898,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                .extra1         = &zero,
                .extra2         = &one,
        },
+       {
+               .procname       = "hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace",
+               .data           = &sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace,
+               .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
+               .mode           = 0644,
+               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
+               .extra2         = &one,
+       },
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 #endif
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_X86)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 452e4ed507e5e3e2e48ad097082b2502a976ddc6..f6b32b8cbffe297b89d0437ad387cfb36517384b 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 int __read_mostly sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
+int __read_mostly sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
 #else
 #define sysctl_softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0
+#define sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace 0
 #endif
 static struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
 unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask);
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
 static int hardlockup_panic =
                        CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
+static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped;
 /*
  * We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases,
  * for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these
@@ -173,6 +176,13 @@ static int __init softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
        return 1;
 }
 __setup("softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
+static int __init hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
+{
+       sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace =
+               !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
+       return 1;
+}
+__setup("hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -318,17 +328,30 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
         */
        if (is_hardlockup()) {
                int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+               struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
 
                /* only print hardlockups once */
                if (__this_cpu_read(hard_watchdog_warn) == true)
                        return;
 
-               if (hardlockup_panic)
-                       panic("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
-                             this_cpu);
+               pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu);
+               print_modules();
+               print_irqtrace_events(current);
+               if (regs)
+                       show_regs(regs);
                else
-                       WARN(1, "Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d",
-                            this_cpu);
+                       dump_stack();
+
+               /*
+                * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups
+                * generating interleaving traces
+                */
+               if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace &&
+                               !test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped))
+                       trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
+
+               if (hardlockup_panic)
+                       panic("Hard LOCKUP");
 
                __this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
                return;