watchdog: explicitly update timestamp when reporting softlockup
authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:54:23 +0000 (22:54 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 19 May 2021 08:12:59 +0000 (10:12 +0200)
[ Upstream commit c9ad17c991492f4390f42598f6ab0531f87eed07 ]

The softlockup situation might stay for a long time or even forever.  When
it happens, the softlockup debug messages are printed in regular intervals
defined by get_softlockup_thresh().

There is a mystery.  The repeated message is printed after the full
interval that is defined by get_softlockup_thresh().  But the timer
callback is called more often as defined by sample_period.  The code looks
like the soflockup should get reported in every sample_period when it was
once behind the thresh.

It works only by chance.  The watchdog is touched when printing the stall
report, for example, in printk_stack_address().

Make the behavior clear and predictable by explicitly updating the
timestamp in watchdog_timer_fn() when the report gets printed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-3-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/watchdog.c

index c582440..7776d53 100644 (file)
@@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
                        }
                }
 
+               /* Start period for the next softlockup warning. */
+               update_touch_ts();
+
                pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
                        smp_processor_id(), duration,
                        current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));