kernel/linux.git/include/linux/nmi.h, branch v6.19.11

powerpc/watchdog: add support for hardlockup_sys_info sysctl

2026-01-15T06:16:22+00:00

Commit a9af76a78760 ("watchdog: add sys_info sysctls to dump sys info on system lockup") adds 'hardlock_sys_info' systcl knob for general kernel watchdog to control what kinds of system debug info to be dumped on hardlockup. Add similar support in powerpc watchdog code to make the sysctl knob more general, which also fixes a compiling warning in general watchdog code reported by 0day bot. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231080309.39642-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: a9af76a78760 ("watchdog: add sys_info sysctls to dump sys info on system lockup") Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512030920.NFKtekA7-lkp@intel.com/ Suggested-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/perf: Provide function for adjusting the event period

2025-07-04T12:17:30+00:00

Architecture's using perf events for hard lockup detection needs to convert the watchdog_thresh to the event's period, some architecture for example arm64 perform this conversion using the CPU's maximum frequency which will be acquired by cpufreq. However by the time the lockup detector's initialized the cpufreq driver may not be initialized, thus launch a watchdog with inaccurate period. Provide a function hardlockup_detector_perf_adjust_period() to allowing adjust the event period. Then architecture can update with more accurate period if cpufreq is initialized. Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701110214.27242-2-yangyicong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Fix perf_event memory leak

2025-03-06T11:05:33+00:00

During stress-testing, we found a kmemleak report for perf_event: unreferenced object 0xff110001410a33e0 (size 1328): comm "kworker/4:11", pid 288, jiffies 4294916004 hex dump (first 32 bytes): b8 be c2 3b 02 00 11 ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de ...;...."....... f0 33 0a 41 01 00 11 ff f0 33 0a 41 01 00 11 ff .3.A.....3.A.... backtrace (crc 24eb7b3a): [<00000000e211b653>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x269/0x2e0 [<000000009d0985fa>] perf_event_alloc+0x5f/0xcf0 [<00000000084ad4a2>] perf_event_create_kernel_counter+0x38/0x1b0 [<00000000fde96401>] hardlockup_detector_event_create+0x50/0xe0 [<0000000051183158>] watchdog_hardlockup_enable+0x17/0x70 [<00000000ac89727f>] softlockup_start_fn+0x15/0x40 ... Our stress test includes CPU online and offline cycles, and updating the watchdog configuration. After reading the code, I found that there may be a race between cleaning up perf_event after updating watchdog and disabling event when the CPU goes offline: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 (update watchdog) (hotplug offline CPU1) ... _cpu_down(CPU1) cpus_read_lock() // waiting for cpu lock softlockup_start_all smp_call_on_cpu(CPU1) softlockup_start_fn ... watchdog_hardlockup_enable(CPU1) perf create E1 watchdog_ev[CPU1] = E1 cpus_read_unlock() cpus_write_lock() cpuhp_kick_ap_work(CPU1) cpuhp_thread_fun ... watchdog_hardlockup_disable(CPU1) watchdog_ev[CPU1] = NULL dead_event[CPU1] = E1 __lockup_detector_cleanup for each dead_events_mask release each dead_event /* * CPU1 has not been added to * dead_events_mask, then E1 * will not be released */ CPU1 -> dead_events_mask cpumask_clear(&dead_events_mask) // dead_events_mask is cleared, E1 is leaked In this case, the leaked perf_event E1 matches the perf_event leak reported by kmemleak. Due to the low probability of problem recurrence (only reported once), I added some hack delays in the code: static void __lockup_detector_reconfigure(void) { ... watchdog_hardlockup_start(); cpus_read_unlock(); + mdelay(100); /* * Must be called outside the cpus locked section to prevent * recursive locking in the perf code. ... } void watchdog_hardlockup_disable(unsigned int cpu) { ... perf_event_disable(event); this_cpu_write(watchdog_ev, NULL); this_cpu_write(dead_event, event); + mdelay(100); cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &dead_events_mask); atomic_dec(&watchdog_cpus); ... } void hardlockup_detector_perf_cleanup(void) { ... perf_event_release_kernel(event); per_cpu(dead_event, cpu) = NULL; } + mdelay(100); cpumask_clear(&dead_events_mask); } Then, simultaneously performing CPU on/off and switching watchdog, it is almost certain to reproduce this leak. The problem here is that releasing perf_event is not within the CPU hotplug read-write lock. Commit: 941154bd6937 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Prevent CPU hotplug deadlock") introduced deferred release to solve the deadlock caused by calling get_online_cpus() when releasing perf_event. Later, commit: efe951d3de91 ("perf/x86: Fix perf,x86,cpuhp deadlock") removed the get_online_cpus() call on the perf_event release path to solve another deadlock problem. Therefore, it is now possible to move the release of perf_event back into the CPU hotplug read-write lock, and release the event immediately after disabling it. Fixes: 941154bd6937 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Prevent CPU hotplug deadlock") Signed-off-by: Li Huafei Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021193004.308303-1-lihuafei1@huawei.com

watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event

2024-05-08T15:41:29+00:00

NMI watchdog permanently consumes one hardware counters per CPU on the system. For systems that use many hardware counters, this causes more aggressive time multiplexing of perf events. OTOH, some CPUs (mostly Intel) support "ref-cycles" event, which is rarely used. Add kernel cmdline arg nmi_watchdog=rNNN to configure the watchdog to use raw event. For example, on Intel CPUs, we can use "r300" to configure the watchdog to use ref-cycles event. If the raw event does not work, fall back to use "cycles". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430060236.1878002-2-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Song Liu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/core: remove sysctl handlers from public header

2024-03-12T20:09:23+00:00

The functions are only used in the file where they are defined. Remove them from the header and make them static. Also guard proc_soft_watchdog with a #define-guard as it is not used otherwise. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240306-const-sysctl-prep-watchdog-v1-1-bd45da3a41cf@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nmi_backtrace: allow excluding an arbitrary CPU

2023-08-18T17:19:00+00:00

The APIs that allow backtracing across CPUs have always had a way to exclude the current CPU. This convenience means callers didn't need to find a place to allocate a CPU mask just to handle the common case. Let's extend the API to take a CPU ID to exclude instead of just a boolean. This isn't any more complex for the API to handle and allows the hardlockup detector to exclude a different CPU (the one it already did a trace for) without needing to find space for a CPU mask. Arguably, this new API also encourages safer behavior. Specifically if the caller wants to avoid tracing the current CPU (maybe because they already traced the current CPU) this makes it more obvious to the caller that they need to make sure that the current CPU ID can't change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix trigger_allbutcpu_cpu_backtrace() stub] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804065935.v4.1.Ia35521b91fc781368945161d7b28538f9996c182@changeid Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Lecopzer Chen Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Pingfan Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH

2023-06-19T23:25:29+00:00

The HAVE_ prefix means that the code could be enabled. Add another variable for HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH without this prefix. It will be set when it should be built. It will make it compatible with the other hardlockup detectors. The change allows to clean up dependencies of PPC_WATCHDOG and HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF definitions for powerpc. As a result HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF has the same dependencies on arm, x86, powerpc architectures. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616150618.6073-7-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64

2023-06-19T23:25:29+00:00

The HAVE_ prefix means that the code could be enabled. Add another variable for HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64 without this prefix. It will be set when it should be built. It will make it compatible with the other hardlockup detectors. Before, it is far from obvious that the SPARC64 variant is actually used: $> make ARCH=sparc64 defconfig $> grep HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR .config CONFIG_HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY=y CONFIG_HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64=y After, it is more clear: $> make ARCH=sparc64 defconfig $> grep HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR .config CONFIG_HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY=y CONFIG_HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64=y CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64=y Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616150618.6073-6-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific

2023-06-19T23:25:29+00:00

There are several hardlockup detector implementations and several Kconfig values which allow selection and build of the preferred one. CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR was introduced by the commit 23637d477c1f53acb ("lockup_detector: Introduce CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR") in v2.6.36. It was a preparation step for introducing the new generic perf hardlockup detector. The existing arch-specific variants did not support the to-be-created generic build configurations, sysctl interface, etc. This distinction was made explicit by the commit 4a7863cc2eb5f98 ("x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and rely on CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR") in v2.6.38. CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG was introduced by the commit d314d74c695f967e105 ("nmi watchdog: do not use cpp symbol in Kconfig") in v3.4-rc1. It replaced the above mentioned ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG. At that time, it was still used by three architectures, namely blackfin, mn10300, and sparc. The support for blackfin and mn10300 architectures has been completely dropped some time ago. And sparc is the only architecture with the historic NMI watchdog at the moment. And the old sparc implementation is really special. It is always built on sparc64. It used to be always enabled until the commit 7a5c8b57cec93196b ("sparc: implement watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable") added in v4.10-rc1. There are only few locations where the sparc64 NMI watchdog interacts with the generic hardlockup detectors code: + implements arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() which is called from the generic touch_nmi_watchdog() + implements watchdog_hardlockup_enable()/disable() to support /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog + is always preferred over other generic watchdogs, see CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR + includes asm/nmi.h into linux/nmi.h because some sparc-specific functions are needed in sparc-specific code which includes only linux/nmi.h. The situation became more complicated after the commit 05a4a95279311c3 ("kernel/watchdog: split up config options") and commit 2104180a53698df5 ("powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog") in v4.13-rc1. They introduced HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH. It was used for powerpc specific hardlockup detector. It was compatible with the perf one regarding the general boot, sysctl, and programming interfaces. HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH was defined as a superset of HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It made some sense because all arch-specific detectors had some common requirements, namely: + implemented arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() + included asm/nmi.h into linux/nmi.h + defined the default value for /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog But it actually has made things pretty complicated when the generic buddy hardlockup detector was added. Before the generic perf detector was newer supported together with an arch-specific one. But the buddy detector could work on any SMP system. It means that an architecture could support both the arch-specific and buddy detector. As a result, there are few tricky dependencies. For example, CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR depends on: ((HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY) && !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG) || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH The problem is that the very special sparc implementation is defined as: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG && !HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH Another problem is that the meaning of HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG is far from clear without reading understanding the history. Make the logic less tricky and more self-explanatory by making HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG specific for the sparc64 implementation. And rename it to HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64. Note that HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY, HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF, and HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY may conflict only with HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH. They depend on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR and it is not longer enabled when HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG is set. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616150618.6073-5-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h

2023-06-19T23:25:29+00:00

arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() needs a different implementation for various hardlockup detector implementations. And it does nothing when any hardlockup detector is not built at all. arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() is declared via linux/nmi.h. And it must be defined as an empty function when there is no hardlockup detector. It is done directly in this header file for the perf and buddy detectors. And it is done in the included asm/linux.h for arch specific detectors. The reason probably is that the arch specific variants build the code using another conditions. For example, powerpc64/sparc64 builds the code when CONFIG_PPC_WATCHDOG is enabled. Another reason might be that these architectures define more functions in asm/nmi.h anyway. However the generic code actually knows when the function will be implemented. It happens when some full featured or the sparc64-specific hardlockup detector is built. In particular, CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR can be enabled only when a generic or arch-specific full featured hardlockup detector is available. The only exception is sparc64 which can be built even when the global HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR switch is disabled. The information about sparc64 is a bit complicated. The hardlockup detector is built there when CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG is set and CONFIG_HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH is not set. People might wonder whether this change really makes things easier. The motivation is: + The current logic in linux/nmi.h is far from obvious. For example, arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() is defined as {} when neither CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_COUNTS_HRTIMER nor CONFIG_HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG is defined. + The change synchronizes the checks in lib/Kconfig.debug and in the generic code. + It is a step that will help cleaning HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG related checks. The change should not change the existing behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616150618.6073-4-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton