From cf454aecb31741a0438ed1201b3dd153c7c7b19a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Zickus Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:19:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog: Fallback to software events when no hardware pmu detected Not all arches have a PMU or have perf_event support for their PMU. The nmi_watchdog will fail in those cases. Fallback to using software events to generate nmi_watchdog traffic with local apic interrupts. Tested on a Pentium4 and it worked as expected, excepting for detecting cpu lockups. The problem with using software events as a cpu lock up detector is the nmi_watchdog uses the logic that if local apic interrupts stop incrementing then the cpu is probably locked up. But with software events we use the local apic to trigger the nmi_watchdog callback to see if local apic interrupts are still firing, which obviously they are otherwise we wouldn't have been triggered. The algorithm to detect cpu lock ups is the same as the old nmi_watchdog. Perhaps we need to find a better way to detect lock ups? Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com Cc: aris@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/nmi_watchdog.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c b/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c index 73c1954..4f23505 100644 --- a/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c @@ -166,8 +166,12 @@ cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) wd_attr.sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(); event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&wd_attr, hotcpu, -1, wd_overflow); if (IS_ERR(event)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "nmi watchdog failed to create perf event on %i: %p\n", hotcpu, event); - return NOTIFY_BAD; + wd_attr.type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE; + event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&wd_attr, hotcpu, -1, wd_overflow); + if (IS_ERR(event)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "nmi watchdog failed to create perf event on %i: %p\n", hotcpu, event); + return NOTIFY_BAD; + } } per_cpu(nmi_watchdog_ev, hotcpu) = event; perf_event_enable(per_cpu(nmi_watchdog_ev, hotcpu)); -- 2.7.4