From 7edaeb6841dfb27e362288ab8466ebdc4972e867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:50:13 +0200 Subject: kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes The hardlockup detector on x86 uses a performance counter based on unhalted CPU cycles and a periodic hrtimer. The hrtimer period is about 2/5 of the performance counter period, so the hrtimer should fire 2-3 times before the performance counter NMI fires. The NMI code checks whether the hrtimer fired since the last invocation. If not, it assumess a hard lockup. The calculation of those periods is based on the nominal CPU frequency. Turbo modes increase the CPU clock frequency and therefore shorten the period of the perf/NMI watchdog. With extreme Turbo-modes (3x nominal frequency) the perf/NMI period is shorter than the hrtimer period which leads to false positives. A simple fix would be to shorten the hrtimer period, but that comes with the side effect of more frequent hrtimer and softlockup thread wakeups, which is not desired. Implement a low pass filter, which checks the perf/NMI period against kernel time. If the perf/NMI fires before 4/5 of the watchdog period has elapsed then the event is ignored and postponed to the next perf/NMI. That solves the problem and avoids the overhead of shorter hrtimer periods and more frequent softlockup thread wakeups. Fixes: 58687acba592 ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector") Reported-and-tested-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: babu.moger@oracle.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: atomlin@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150931310.1886@nanos --- kernel/watchdog.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c') diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 06d3389bca0d..f5d52024f6b7 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ static void set_sample_period(void) * hardlockup detector generates a warning */ sample_period = get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5); + watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold(sample_period); } /* Commands for resetting the watchdog */ -- cgit v1.2.3