linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:45:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@...hat.com>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard
 lockup

On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Aaron Tomlin wrote:

> > +		/*
> > +		 * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups
> > +		 * generating interleaving traces
> > +		 */
> > +		if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace &&
> > +				!test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped))
> > +			trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
> 
> How does this play when 'softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace' is enabled too?

That should be fine. Worst case scenario is hardlockup and softlockup 
trigerring 'in parallel' on different CPUs, and all-cpu backtrace being 
triggered twice.

Frankly, I've never seen this happen in practice (hardlockup and 
softlockup triggering at different CPUs at the very same time).

We could possibly make a global 'all_cpus_dump_in_progress' flag so that 
we guarantee only one stream of dumps, but we'd need to convert everybody 
using this facility (e.g. RCU stall detector, and whoever else) to be 
aware of it as well, otherwise it wouldn't make too much sense.

Something to add to TODO I guess.

> 
> > +
> > +		if (hardlockup_panic)
> > +			panic("Hard LOCKUP");
> >  
> >  		__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
> >  		return;
> 
> This does indeed appear similar to Linus commit ed235875
> ("kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection");
> albeit for the hardlockup detector.
> 
> Looks fine to me. Thanks!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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