From nobody Sun Feb 8 14:10:38 2026 Received: from out30-124.freemail.mail.aliyun.com (out30-124.freemail.mail.aliyun.com [115.124.30.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB53C225CE for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 14:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=115.124.30.124 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1707058334; cv=none; b=V4X53O7FxLmz6X5DFn0mE2E7ANxqstIi/kKXiAhOF6cktKedBhyWn9/4Zrsvl5ZSKGSAq91g/R9J9lNnC30KOPiptHVL9b0pMTT1ZNRUb66yo9Nxcj1qHLAbz4k8tk14m6Jpkd4i9OwkxUm3IK0jHPQPJGeFQX9nJLTbJR3ryJg= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1707058334; c=relaxed/simple; bh=PpjR3JNFsu94eRPC0I0FRaYDU9qtDRW9Gc3g8HGzlGA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=nfcGDJtKpmB+ULyMk/WO1hBd97yjWKBxldpwtOFl3A06oTaIAcpxXMEpZCX5btXoTlaDhOpSpSaiqGBdWhA0N86MEN5I4d1Vq0myexl2W5cF+XndB9gVtYYDhenm0IytQ6pxjdxA+nJkLLQ3dsDZ7JIbIu3ekdzI+7CDSHMgTWw= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.alibaba.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.alibaba.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.alibaba.com header.i=@linux.alibaba.com header.b=WgLKVMIH; arc=none smtp.client-ip=115.124.30.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.alibaba.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.alibaba.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.alibaba.com header.i=@linux.alibaba.com header.b="WgLKVMIH" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.alibaba.com; s=default; t=1707058323; h=From:To:Subject:Date:Message-Id:MIME-Version; bh=yOA0NzOuc1AUqfK3IPzXejCHHxQBLRURGo2n3AMHuRI=; b=WgLKVMIHgY8h6ORMuJertkyHJD1H1B1WJQcS+6zZAeOncFKr9lkUPgfRBNT92rHrah2UB4wzgSthWE+D4yXmCfdnivUqQ8gLlK1AfHZsx3+KKlX0+sshw30TvMk0u0uCUaACmRa631EzZ/w8tP9oPoz4skgCe1phn5S+QRK6fDI= X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R751e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;DS=||;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=ay29a033018045168;MF=yaoma@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=7;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0W00xOzy_1707058321; Received: from localhost.localdomain(mailfrom:yaoma@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0W00xOzy_1707058321) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com; Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:52:03 +0800 From: Bitao Hu To: dianders@chromium.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pmladek@suse.com, kernelfans@gmail.com, liusong@linux.alibaba.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yaoma@linux.alibaba.com Subject: [PATCHv4 2/3] watchdog/softlockup: report the most frequent interrupts Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 22:51:53 +0800 Message-Id: <20240204145154.11069-3-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.37.1 (Apple Git-137.1) In-Reply-To: <20240204145154.11069-1-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com> References: <20240204145154.11069-1-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" When the watchdog determines that the current soft lockup is due to an interrupt storm based on CPU utilization, reporting the most frequent interrupts could be good enough for further troubleshooting. Below is an example of interrupt storm. The call tree does not provide useful information, but we can analyze which interrupt caused the soft lockup by comparing the counts of interrupts. [ 2987.488075] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 23s! [kworker/9= :1:214] [ 2987.488607] CPU#9 Utilization every 4s during lockup: [ 2987.488941] #1: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0= % idle [ 2987.489357] #2: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0= % idle [ 2987.489771] #3: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0= % idle [ 2987.490186] #4: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0= % idle [ 2987.490601] #5: 0% system, 0% softirq, 100% hardirq, 0= % idle [ 2987.491034] CPU#9 Detect HardIRQ Time exceeds 50%. Most frequent HardIRQ= s: [ 2987.491493] #1: 330985 irq#7(IPI) [ 2987.491743] #2: 5000 irq#10(arch_timer) [ 2987.492039] #3: 9 irq#91(nvme0q2) [ 2987.492318] #4: 3 irq#118(virtio1-output.12) ... [ 2987.492728] Call trace: [ 2987.492729] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x364 Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu Reviewed-by: Liu Song --- kernel/watchdog.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 156 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 7b121e166b81..d31120c3e9d1 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ #include #include #include +#include +#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -412,13 +415,153 @@ static void print_cpustat(void) } } =20 +#define HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH 50 +#define NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT 5 +static DECLARE_BITMAP(softlockup_hardirq_cpus, CONFIG_NR_CPUS); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u32 *, hardirq_counts); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, actual_nr_irqs); +struct irq_counts { + int irq; + u32 counts; +}; + +/* Tabulate the most frequent interrupts. */ +static void tabulate_irq_count(struct irq_counts *irq_counts, int irq, u32= counts, int rank) +{ + int i; + struct irq_counts new_count =3D {irq, counts}; + + for (i =3D 0; i < rank; i++) { + if (counts > irq_counts[i].counts) + swap(new_count, irq_counts[i]); + } +} + +/* + * If the hardirq time exceeds HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH% of the sample_perio= d, + * then the cause of softlockup might be interrupt storm. In this case, it + * would be useful to start interrupt counting. + */ +static bool need_counting_irqs(void) +{ + int tail =3D __this_cpu_read(cpustat_tail); + u8 util; + + tail =3D (tail + NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT - 1) % NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT; + util =3D __this_cpu_read(cpustat_util[tail][STATS_HARDIRQ]); + return util > HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH; +} + +static void start_counting_irqs(void) +{ + int i; + u32 *counts =3D __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts); + int cpu =3D smp_processor_id(); + struct irq_desc *desc; + + if (!test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) { + /* + * nr_irqs has the potential to grow at runtime. We should read + * it and store locally to avoid array out-of-bounds access. + */ + __this_cpu_write(actual_nr_irqs, nr_irqs); + counts =3D kmalloc_array(__this_cpu_read(actual_nr_irqs), + sizeof(u32), + GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!counts) + return; + for (i =3D 0; i < __this_cpu_read(actual_nr_irqs); i++) { + desc =3D irq_to_desc(i); + if (!desc) + continue; + counts[i] =3D desc->kstat_irqs ? + *this_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs) : 0; + } + __this_cpu_write(hardirq_counts, counts); + set_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus); + } +} + +static void stop_counting_irqs(void) +{ + u32 *counts =3D __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts); + int cpu =3D smp_processor_id(); + + if (test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) { + kfree(counts); + counts =3D NULL; + __this_cpu_write(hardirq_counts, counts); + clear_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus); + } +} + +static void print_irq_counts(void) +{ + int i; + struct irq_desc *desc; + u32 counts_diff; + u32 *counts =3D __this_cpu_read(hardirq_counts); + int cpu =3D smp_processor_id(); + struct irq_counts irq_counts_sorted[NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT] =3D { + {-1, 0}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 0}, {-1, 0}, + }; + + if (test_bit(cpu, softlockup_hardirq_cpus)) { + for_each_irq_desc(i, desc) { + if (!desc) + continue; + /* + * We need to bounds-check in case someone on a different CPU + * expanded nr_irqs. + */ + if (i < __this_cpu_read(actual_nr_irqs)) + counts_diff =3D desc->kstat_irqs ? + *this_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs) - counts[i] : 0; + else + counts_diff =3D desc->kstat_irqs ? + *this_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs) : 0; + tabulate_irq_count(irq_counts_sorted, i, counts_diff, + NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT); + } + /* + * We do not want the "watchdog: " prefix on every line, + * hence we use "printk" instead of "pr_crit". + */ + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU#%d Detect HardIRQ Time exceeds %d%%. Most frequent= HardIRQs:\n", + smp_processor_id(), HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH); + for (i =3D 0; i < NUM_HARDIRQ_REPORT; i++) { + if (irq_counts_sorted[i].irq =3D=3D -1) + break; + desc =3D irq_to_desc(irq_counts_sorted[i].irq); + if (desc && desc->action) + printk(KERN_CRIT "\t#%u: %-10u\tirq#%d(%s)\n", + i+1, irq_counts_sorted[i].counts, + irq_counts_sorted[i].irq, desc->action->name); + else + printk(KERN_CRIT "\t#%u: %-10u\tirq#%d\n", + i+1, irq_counts_sorted[i].counts, + irq_counts_sorted[i].irq); + } + /* + * If the hardirq time is less than HARDIRQ_PERCENT_THRESH% in the last + * sample_period, then we suspect the interrupt storm might be subsiding. + */ + if (!need_counting_irqs()) + stop_counting_irqs(); + } +} + static void report_cpu_status(void) { print_cpustat(); + print_irq_counts(); } #else static inline void update_cpustat(void) { } static inline void report_cpu_status(void) { } +static inline bool need_counting_irqs(void) { return false; } +static inline void start_counting_irqs(void) { } +static inline void stop_counting_irqs(void) { } #endif =20 /* @@ -522,6 +665,18 @@ static int is_softlockup(unsigned long touch_ts, unsigned long now) { if ((watchdog_enabled & WATCHDOG_SOFTOCKUP_ENABLED) && watchdog_thresh) { + /* + * If period_ts has not been updated during a sample_period, then + * in the subsequent few sample_periods, period_ts might also not + * be updated, which could indicate a potential softlockup. In + * this case, if we suspect the cause of the potential softlockup + * might be interrupt storm, then we need to count the interrupts + * to find which interrupt is storming. + */ + if (time_after_eq(now, period_ts + get_softlockup_thresh() / 5) && + need_counting_irqs()) + start_counting_irqs(); + /* Warn about unreasonable delays. */ if (time_after(now, period_ts + get_softlockup_thresh())) return now - touch_ts; @@ -544,6 +699,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stop_work, softlockup_= stop_work); static int softlockup_fn(void *data) { update_touch_ts(); + stop_counting_irqs(); complete(this_cpu_ptr(&softlockup_completion)); =20 return 0; --=20 2.37.1 (Apple Git-137.1)