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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:32:19 +0800
From: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
CC: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...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>, Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information
On 2022/11/14 19:24, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 09:07:07PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> Because RCU CPU stall warnings are driven from the scheduling-clock
>> interrupt handler, a workload consisting of a very large number of
>> short-duration hardware interrupts can result in misleading stall-warning
>> messages. On systems supporting only a single level of interrupts,
>> that is, where interrupts handlers cannot be interrupted, this can
>> produce misleading diagnostics. The stack traces will show the
>> innocent-bystander interrupted task, not the interrupts that are
>> at the very least exacerbating the stall.
>>
>> This situation can be improved by displaying the number of interrupts
>> and the CPU time that they have consumed. Diagnosing other types
>> of stalls can be eased by also providing the count of softirqs and
>> the CPU time that they consumed as well as the number of context
>> switches and the task-level CPU time consumed.
>>
>> Consider the following output given this change:
>>
>> rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
>> rcu: 0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) <omitted>
>> rcu: hardirqs softirqs csw/system
>> rcu: number: 624 45 0
>> rcu: cputime: 69 1 2425 ==> 2500(ms)
>>
>> This output shows that the number of hard and soft interrupts is small,
>> there are no context switches, and the system takes up a lot of time. This
>> indicates that the current task is looping with preemption disabled.
>>
>> The impact on system performance is negligible because snapshot is
>> recorded only once for all continuous RCU stalls.
>>
>> This added debugging information is suppressed by default and can be
>> enabled by building the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y or
>> by booting with rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime=1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@...cinc.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
>> ---
>> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++
>> kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++
>> kernel/rcu/rcu.h | 1 +
>> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 18 +++++++++++
>> kernel/rcu/tree.h | 19 ++++++++++++
>> kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
>> kernel/rcu/update.c | 2 ++
>> 7 files changed, 88 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> index 811b2e6d4672685..ee7d9d962591c5d 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -5084,6 +5084,12 @@
>> rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
>> conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
>>
>> + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
>> + Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
>> + interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
>> + multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
>> + begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
>> +
>> rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
>> Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
>> example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
>> index 1b0c41d490f0588..025566a9ba44667 100644
>> --- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
>> @@ -95,6 +95,17 @@ config RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
>> says to use the RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT value converted from
>> seconds to milliseconds.
>>
>> +config RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME
>> + bool "Provide additional RCU stall debug information"
>> + depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
>> + default n
>> + help
>> + Collect statistics during the sampling period, such as the number of
>> + (hard interrupts, soft interrupts, task switches) and the cputime of
>> + (hard interrupts, soft interrupts, kernel tasks) are added to the
>> + RCU stall report. For multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling
>> + periods begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
>> +
>> config RCU_TRACE
>> bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
>> depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
>> index 96122f203187f39..4844dec36bddb48 100644
>> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
>> @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ extern int rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump;
>> extern int rcu_cpu_stall_suppress;
>> extern int rcu_cpu_stall_timeout;
>> extern int rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout;
>> +extern int rcu_cpu_stall_cputime;
>> int rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check(void);
>> int rcu_exp_jiffies_till_stall_check(void);
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
>> index ed93ddb8203d42c..3921aacfd421ba9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
>> @@ -866,6 +866,24 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp)
>> rdp->rcu_iw_gp_seq = rnp->gp_seq;
>> irq_work_queue_on(&rdp->rcu_iw, rdp->cpu);
>> }
>> +
>> + if (rcu_cpu_stall_cputime && rdp->snap_record.gp_seq != rdp->gp_seq) {
>> + int cpu = rdp->cpu;
>> + struct rcu_snap_record *rsrp;
>> + struct kernel_cpustat *kcsp;
>> +
>> + kcsp = &kcpustat_cpu(cpu);
>> +
>> + rsrp = &rdp->snap_record;
>> + rsrp->cputime_irq = kcpustat_field(kcsp, CPUTIME_IRQ, cpu);
>> + rsrp->cputime_softirq = kcpustat_field(kcsp, CPUTIME_SOFTIRQ, cpu);
>> + rsrp->cputime_system = kcpustat_field(kcsp, CPUTIME_SYSTEM, cpu);
>> + rsrp->nr_hardirqs = kstat_cpu_irqs_sum(rdp->cpu);
>> + rsrp->nr_softirqs = kstat_cpu_softirqs_sum(rdp->cpu);
>
> Getting the sum of all CPU's IRQs, with even two iterations on all of them, look
> costly. So I have to ask: why is this information useful and why can't we deduce
> it from other CPUs stall reports?
Only the RCU stalled CPUs are recorded. Why all CPUs?
static void force_qs_rnp(int (*f)(struct rcu_data *rdp))
{
rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) {
if (rnp->qsmask == 0) {
continue;
}
for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask(rnp, cpu, rnp->qsmask) {
if (f(rdp))
>
> I'm also asking because this rcu_cpu_stall_cputime is likely to be very useful for
> distros, to the point that I expect it to be turned on by default as doing a
> snapshot of kcpustat fields is cheap. But doing that wide CPU snapshot is
> definetly going to be an unbearable overhead.
I purposely added a print test, only the RCU stalled CPU would be taken snapshots and
calculated differentials.
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index d1f0d857dc85df5..693e7c83bd17d1e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp)
struct rcu_snap_record *rsrp;
struct kernel_cpustat *kcsp;
+ printk("fixme: cpu=%d\n", smp_processor_id());
kcsp = &kcpustat_cpu(cpu);
rsrp = &rdp->snap_record;
>
> Thanks.
> .
>
--
Regards,
Zhen Lei
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