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| author | Bitao Hu | 2024-04-11 15:41:33 +0800 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner | 2024-04-12 17:08:05 +0200 |
| commit | d7037381d00286aa4beb631c401da761ee564c94 (patch) | |
| tree | 40100890251b4873064437692c44795332b77fe2 /lib | |
| parent | 25a4a015118037809c97d089d69e927737e589e1 (diff) | |
watchdog/softlockup: Low-overhead detection of interrupt storm
The following softlockup is caused by interrupt storm, but it cannot be
identified from the call tree. Because the call tree is just a snapshot
and doesn't fully capture the behavior of the CPU during the soft lockup.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#28 stuck for 23s! [fio:83921]
...
Call trace:
__do_softirq+0xa0/0x37c
__irq_exit_rcu+0x108/0x140
irq_exit+0x14/0x20
__handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xe0
gic_handle_irq+0x80/0x108
el0_irq_naked+0x50/0x58
Therefore, it is necessary to report CPU utilization during the
softlockup_threshold period (report once every sample_period, for a total
of 5 reportings), like this:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#28 stuck for 23s! [fio:83921]
CPU#28 Utilization every 4s during lockup:
#1: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#2: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#3: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#4: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
#5: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0% idle
...
This is helpful in determining whether an interrupt storm has occurred or
in identifying the cause of the softlockup. The criteria for determination
are as follows:
a. If the hardirq utilization is high, then interrupt storm should be
considered and the root cause cannot be determined from the call tree.
b. If the softirq utilization is high, then the call might not necessarily
point at the root cause.
c. If the system utilization is high, then analyzing the root
cause from the call tree is possible in most cases.
The mechanism requires a considerable amount of global storage space
when configured for the maximum number of CPUs. Therefore, adding a
SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR_INTR_STORM Kconfig knob that defaults to "yes"
if the max number of CPUs is <= 128.
Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411074134.30922-5-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index c63a5fbf1f1c..1f0ce712a671 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1029,6 +1029,20 @@ config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection and the system will stay locked up. +config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR_INTR_STORM + bool "Detect Interrupt Storm in Soft Lockups" + depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR && IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING + select GENERIC_IRQ_STAT_SNAPSHOT + default y if NR_CPUS <= 128 + help + Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect interrupt storm + during "soft lockups". + + "soft lockups" can be caused by a variety of reasons. If one is + caused by an interrupt storm, then the storming interrupts will not + be on the callstack. To detect this case, it is necessary to report + the CPU stats and the interrupt counts during the "soft lockups". + config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR |