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McKenney" , Waiman Long , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com> References: <20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <170853967749.398.12473568848886584851.tip-bot2@tip-bot2> Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 2ed08e4bc53298db3f87b528cd804cb0cce066a9 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/2ed08e4bc53298db3f87b528cd804cb0c= ce066a9 Author: Feng Tang AuthorDate: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:08:59 +08:00 Committer: Thomas Gleixner CommitterDate: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:42 +01:00 clocksource: Scale the watchdog read retries automatically On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-b= ack delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns, wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc= =3Dunstable'. sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205,= -5992055152) clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to C= PUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896. clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs. The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta (latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs. There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime. Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely. [ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ] Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jin Wang Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Waiman Long Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +------ include/linux/clocksource.h | 14 +++++++++++++- kernel/time/clocksource-wdtest.c | 13 +++++++------ kernel/time/clocksource.c | 10 ++++------ tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh | 2 +- 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentatio= n/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 31b3a25..763e96d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -679,12 +679,6 @@ loops can be debugged more effectively on production systems. =20 - clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries=3D [KNL] - Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to - external delays before the clock will be marked - unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, - three attempts to read the clock under test. - clocksource.verify_n_cpus=3D [KNL] Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h index 1d42d4b..0ad8b55 100644 --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h @@ -291,7 +291,19 @@ static inline void timer_probe(void) {} #define TIMER_ACPI_DECLARE(name, table_id, fn) \ ACPI_DECLARE_PROBE_ENTRY(timer, name, table_id, 0, NULL, 0, fn) =20 -extern ulong max_cswd_read_retries; +static inline unsigned int clocksource_get_max_watchdog_retry(void) +{ + /* + * When system is in the boot phase or under heavy workload, there + * can be random big latencies during the clocksource/watchdog + * read, so allow retries to filter the noise latency. As the + * latency's frequency and maximum value goes up with the number of + * CPUs, scale the number of retries with the number of online + * CPUs. + */ + return (ilog2(num_online_cpus()) / 2) + 1; +} + void clocksource_verify_percpu(struct clocksource *cs); =20 #endif /* _LINUX_CLOCKSOURCE_H */ diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource-wdtest.c b/kernel/time/clocksource-wdt= est.c index df922f4..d06185e 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource-wdtest.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource-wdtest.c @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ static void wdtest_ktime_clocksource_reset(void) static int wdtest_func(void *arg) { unsigned long j1, j2; + int i, max_retries; char *s; - int i; =20 schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(holdoff * HZ); =20 @@ -139,18 +139,19 @@ static int wdtest_func(void *arg) WARN_ON_ONCE(time_before(j2, j1 + NSEC_PER_USEC)); =20 /* Verify tsc-like stability with various numbers of errors injected. */ - for (i =3D 0; i <=3D max_cswd_read_retries + 1; i++) { - if (i <=3D 1 && i < max_cswd_read_retries) + max_retries =3D clocksource_get_max_watchdog_retry(); + for (i =3D 0; i <=3D max_retries + 1; i++) { + if (i <=3D 1 && i < max_retries) s =3D ""; - else if (i <=3D max_cswd_read_retries) + else if (i <=3D max_retries) s =3D ", expect message"; else s =3D ", expect clock skew"; - pr_info("--- Watchdog with %dx error injection, %lu retries%s.\n", i, ma= x_cswd_read_retries, s); + pr_info("--- Watchdog with %dx error injection, %d retries%s.\n", i, max= _retries, s); WRITE_ONCE(wdtest_ktime_read_ndelays, i); schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(2 * HZ); WARN_ON_ONCE(READ_ONCE(wdtest_ktime_read_ndelays)); - WARN_ON_ONCE((i <=3D max_cswd_read_retries) !=3D + WARN_ON_ONCE((i <=3D max_retries) !=3D !(clocksource_wdtest_ktime.flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE)); wdtest_ktime_clocksource_reset(); } diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index 4ef0665..e5b260a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -210,9 +210,6 @@ void clocksource_mark_unstable(struct clocksource *cs) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags); } =20 -ulong max_cswd_read_retries =3D 2; -module_param(max_cswd_read_retries, ulong, 0644); -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(max_cswd_read_retries); static int verify_n_cpus =3D 8; module_param(verify_n_cpus, int, 0644); =20 @@ -224,11 +221,12 @@ enum wd_read_status { =20 static enum wd_read_status cs_watchdog_read(struct clocksource *cs, u64 *c= snow, u64 *wdnow) { - unsigned int nretries; + unsigned int nretries, max_retries; u64 wd_end, wd_end2, wd_delta; int64_t wd_delay, wd_seq_delay; =20 - for (nretries =3D 0; nretries <=3D max_cswd_read_retries; nretries++) { + max_retries =3D clocksource_get_max_watchdog_retry(); + for (nretries =3D 0; nretries <=3D max_retries; nretries++) { local_irq_disable(); *wdnow =3D watchdog->read(watchdog); *csnow =3D cs->read(cs); @@ -240,7 +238,7 @@ static enum wd_read_status cs_watchdog_read(struct cloc= ksource *cs, u64 *csnow,=20 wd_delay =3D clocksource_cyc2ns(wd_delta, watchdog->mult, watchdog->shift); if (wd_delay <=3D WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW) { - if (nretries > 1 || nretries >=3D max_cswd_read_retries) { + if (nretries > 1 || nretries >=3D max_retries) { pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog on CPU%d: %s retried %d times before suc= cess\n", smp_processor_id(), watchdog->name, nretries); } diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh b/tools/test= ing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh index d5a0d8a..bbac5f4 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ then torture_bootargs=3D"rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot=3D1 torture.d= isable_onoff_at_boot rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout=3D30000 tsc=3Dwatchdog" torture_set "clocksourcewd-1" tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.= sh --allcpus --duration 45s --configs TREE03 --kconfig "CONFIG_TEST_CLOCKSO= URCE_WATCHDOG=3Dy" --trust-make =20 - torture_bootargs=3D"rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot=3D1 torture.d= isable_onoff_at_boot rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout=3D30000 clocksource.ma= x_cswd_read_retries=3D1 tsc=3Dwatchdog" + torture_bootargs=3D"rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot=3D1 torture.d= isable_onoff_at_boot rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout=3D30000 tsc=3Dwatchdog" torture_set "clocksourcewd-2" tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.= sh --allcpus --duration 45s --configs TREE03 --kconfig "CONFIG_TEST_CLOCKSO= URCE_WATCHDOG=3Dy" --trust-make =20 # In case our work is already done...