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author | Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> | 2010-01-27 22:25:22 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-02-01 07:22:32 (GMT) |
commit | d6ad3e286d2c075a60b9f11075a2c55aeeeca2ad (patch) | |
tree | 24f374a6cb1ef36c2aec41b9de6b8f3b1b09780d /kernel/kgdb.c | |
parent | 48d50674179981e41f432167b2441cec782d5484 (diff) | |
download | linux-d6ad3e286d2c075a60b9f11075a2c55aeeeca2ad.tar.xz |
softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.
Sequence of events in the problem case:
1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()
2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
exit the following is called ... touch_softlockup_watchdog() -->
__raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;
3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec
4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"
update_process_times() { ... run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) -->
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.) ...
scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ... }
5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
jump and trips the softlockup warning.
update_process_times() { ... run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ... }
note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"
Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:
get_timestamp(this_cpu)
-->cpu_clock(this_cpu)
-->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
-->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)
The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values. So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.
The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state. This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.
[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kgdb.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/kgdb.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c index 2eb517e..87f2cc5 100644 --- a/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ static void kgdb_wait(struct pt_regs *regs) /* Signal the primary CPU that we are done: */ atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[cpu], 0); - touch_softlockup_watchdog(); + touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(); clocksource_touch_watchdog(); local_irq_restore(flags); } @@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ acquirelock: (kgdb_info[cpu].task && kgdb_info[cpu].task->pid != kgdb_sstep_pid) && --sstep_tries) { atomic_set(&kgdb_active, -1); - touch_softlockup_watchdog(); + touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(); clocksource_touch_watchdog(); local_irq_restore(flags); @@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ kgdb_restore: } /* Free kgdb_active */ atomic_set(&kgdb_active, -1); - touch_softlockup_watchdog(); + touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(); clocksource_touch_watchdog(); local_irq_restore(flags); |