linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hardlockup: detect hard lockups without NMIs using secondary cpus

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Message-ID: <20130110234258.GA15458@atomide.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:42:58 -0800
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hardlockup: detect hard lockups without NMIs using
 secondary cpus

* Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com> [130110 14:37]:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com> [130109 18:05]:
> > > +static void watchdog_check_hardlockup_other_cpu(void)
> > > +{
> > > +     int cpu;
> > > +     cpumask_t cpus = watchdog_cpus;
> > > +
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Test for hardlockups every 3 samples.  The sample period is
> > > +      *  watchdog_thresh * 2 / 5, so 3 samples gets us back to slightly over
> > > +      *  watchdog_thresh (over by 20%).
> > > +      */
> > > +     if (__this_cpu_read(hrtimer_interrupts) % 3 != 0)
> > > +             return;
> > > +
> > > +     /* check for a hardlockup on the next cpu */
> > > +     cpu = cpumask_next(smp_processor_id(), &cpus);
> >
> > Hmm don't you want to check cpu_oneline_mask here and
> > return if the other CPU is offline?
> 
> watchdog_cpus is effectively a local copy of cpu_online_mask, but
> updated after the watchdog_nmi_touch in watchdog_nmi_enable.  This
> avoids a false positive after hotplugging in a cpu when
> cpu_online_mask is true but that cpu hasn't yet run it's first
> hrtimer.

OK thanks for clarifying that.

Tony
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