Message-ID: <5dfe8c4e-9e88-d0f0-0882-d438affa436d@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:13:18 +0800
From:   "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To:     <paulmck@...nel.org>
CC:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rcu: Display registers of self-detected stall as far
 as possible



On 2022/7/29 0:15, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:43:27AM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> For architectures that do not support NMI interrupts, registers is not
>> printed when rcu stall is self-detected. However, this information is
>> useful for analyzing the root cause of the fault. Fortunately, the rcu
>> stall is always detected in the tick interrupt handler. So we can take
>> it through get_irq_regs() and display it through show_regs(). Further,
>> show_regs() unwind the call trace based on 'regs', the worthless call
>> trace associated with tick handling will be omitted, this helps us to
>> focus more on the problem.
>>
>> This is an example on arm64:
>> [   27.501721] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
>> [   27.502238] rcu:     0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) idle=4f7/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=2594/2594 fqs=619
>> [   27.502632]  (t=1251 jiffies g=2989 q=29 ncpus=4)
>> [   27.503845] CPU: 0 PID: 306 Comm: test0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7-00009-g1c1a6c29ff99-dirty #46
>> [   27.504732] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
>> [   27.504947] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>> [   27.504998] pc : arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
>> [   27.505301] lr : arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
>> [   27.505328] sp : ffff80000b29bdf0
>> [   27.505345] x29: ffff80000b29bdf0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
>> [   27.505475] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
>> [   27.505553] x23: 0000000000001f40 x22: ffff800009849c48 x21: 000000065f871ae0
>> [   27.505627] x20: 00000000000025ec x19: ffff80000a6eb300 x18: ffffffffffffffff
>> [   27.505654] x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff80000a6d0296
>> [   27.505681] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: ffff80000a29bc18 x12: 0000000000000426
>> [   27.505709] x11: 0000000000000162 x10: ffff80000a2f3c18 x9 : ffff80000a29bc18
>> [   27.505736] x8 : 00000000ffffefff x7 : ffff80000a2f3c18 x6 : 00000000759bd013
>> [   27.505761] x5 : 01ffffffffffffff x4 : 0002dc6c00000000 x3 : 0000000000000017
>> [   27.505787] x2 : 00000000000025ec x1 : ffff80000b29bdf0 x0 : 0000000075a30653
>> [   27.505937] Call trace:
>> [   27.506002]  arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
>> [   27.506171]  ktime_get+0x48/0xa0
>> [   27.506207]  test_task+0x70/0xf0
>> [   27.506227]  kthread+0x10c/0x110
>> [   27.506243]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>>
>> The old output is as follows:
>> [   27.944550] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
>> [   27.944980] rcu:     0-....: (1249 ticks this GP) idle=cbb/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=2610/2610 fqs=614
>> [   27.945407]  (t=1251 jiffies g=2681 q=28 ncpus=4)
>> [   27.945731] Task dump for CPU 0:
>> [   27.945844] task:test0           state:R  running task     stack:    0 pid:  306 ppid:     2 flags:0x0000000a
>> [   27.946073] Call trace:
>> [   27.946151]  dump_backtrace.part.0+0xc8/0xd4
>> [   27.946378]  show_stack+0x18/0x70
>> [   27.946405]  sched_show_task+0x150/0x180
>> [   27.946427]  dump_cpu_task+0x44/0x54
>> [   27.947193]  rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xec/0x130
>> [   27.947212]  rcu_sched_clock_irq+0xb18/0xef0
>> [   27.947231]  update_process_times+0x68/0xac
>> [   27.947248]  tick_sched_handle+0x34/0x60
>> [   27.947266]  tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0xa4
>> [   27.947281]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x178/0x360
>> [   27.947295]  hrtimer_interrupt+0xe8/0x244
>> [   27.947309]  arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x4c
>> [   27.947326]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x88/0x230
>> [   27.947342]  generic_handle_domain_irq+0x2c/0x44
>> [   27.947357]  gic_handle_irq+0x44/0xc4
>> [   27.947376]  call_on_irq_stack+0x2c/0x54
>> [   27.947415]  do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x94
>> [   27.947431]  el1_interrupt+0x34/0x70
>> [   27.947447]  el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
>> [   27.947462]  el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68                       <--- the above backtrace is worthless
>> [   27.947474]  arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
>> [   27.947487]  ktime_get+0x48/0xa0
>> [   27.947501]  test_task+0x70/0xf0
>> [   27.947520]  kthread+0x10c/0x110
>> [   27.947538]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
> 
> A nice improvement!
> 
> But wouldn't it be better to push this code down into dump_cpu_task()
> itself, so that all callers could gain this benefit?

Oh, right. I will move it into dump_cpu_task().

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
>> ---
>>  kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> v1 --> v2:
>> Fix C99 build warning:
>> kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:358:10: error: call to undeclared function 'get_irq_regs';
>> ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
>> index a001e1e7a99269c..23bfd755c3f6e5b 100644
>> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>>   */
>>  
>>  #include <linux/kvm_para.h>
>> +#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
>>  
>>  //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>>  //
>> @@ -350,6 +351,21 @@ static int rcu_print_task_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
>>  }
>>  #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
>>  
>> +static void rcu_dump_cpu_task(int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	if (cpu == smp_processor_id() && in_irq()) {
>> +		struct pt_regs *regs;
>> +
>> +		regs = get_irq_regs();
>> +		if (regs) {
>> +			show_regs(regs);
>> +			return;
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	dump_cpu_task(cpu);
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * Dump stacks of all tasks running on stalled CPUs.  First try using
>>   * NMIs, but fall back to manual remote stack tracing on architectures
>> @@ -369,7 +385,7 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(void)
>>  				if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
>>  					pr_err("Offline CPU %d blocking current GP.\n", cpu);
>>  				else if (!trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu))
>> -					dump_cpu_task(cpu);
>> +					rcu_dump_cpu_task(cpu);
>>  			}
>>  		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
>>  	}
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
>>
> .
> 

-- 
Regards,
  Zhen Lei

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