From 7a05c0f7bbae91d08b7d0acf016fdb42dbc912ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:01:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: make sure the watchdog thread gets CPU on loaded system If the system is loaded while hotplugging a CPU we might end up with a bogus hardlockup detection. This has been seen during LTP pounder test executed in parallel with hotplug test. The main problem is that enable_watchdog (called when CPU is brought up) registers perf event which periodically checks per-cpu counter (hrtimer_interrupts), updated from a hrtimer callback, but the hrtimer is fired from the kernel thread. This means that while we already do check for the hard lockup the kernel thread might be sitting on the runqueue with zillions of tasks so there is nobody to update the value we rely on and so we KABOOM. Let's fix this by boosting the watchdog thread priority before we wake it up rather than when it's already running. This still doesn't handle a case where we have the same amount of high prio FIFO tasks but that doesn't seem to be common. The current implementation doesn't handle that case anyway so this is not worse at least. Unfortunately, we cannot start perf counter from the watchdog thread because we could miss a real lock up and also we cannot start the hrtimer watchdog_enable because we there is no way (at least I don't know any) to start a hrtimer from a different CPU. [dzickus@redhat.com: fix compile issue with param] Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/watchdog.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 14bc092..203fc6e 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -319,11 +319,9 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) */ static int watchdog(void *unused) { - struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 }; + struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer); - sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); - /* initialize timestamp */ __touch_watchdog(); @@ -350,7 +348,6 @@ static int watchdog(void *unused) set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); } __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - param.sched_priority = 0; sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_NORMAL, ¶m); return 0; } @@ -439,6 +436,7 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) /* create the watchdog thread */ if (!p) { + struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 }; p = kthread_create_on_node(watchdog, NULL, cpu_to_node(cpu), "watchdog/%d", cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) { printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu); @@ -450,6 +448,7 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) } goto out; } + sched_setscheduler(p, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); kthread_bind(p, cpu); per_cpu(watchdog_touch_ts, cpu) = 0; per_cpu(softlockup_watchdog, cpu) = p; -- 2.7.4