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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree.c | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 32 |
3 files changed, 69 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst index c9ab6af4d3be..d53856cc6390 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst @@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ warnings: buggy timer hardware through bugs in the interrupt or exception path (whether hardware, firmware, or software) through bugs in Linux's timer subsystem through bugs in the scheduler, and, - yes, even including bugs in RCU itself. + yes, even including bugs in RCU itself. It can also result in + the ``rcu_.*timer wakeup didn't happen for`` console-log message, + which will include additional debugging information. - A bug in the RCU implementation. @@ -292,6 +294,25 @@ kthread is waiting for a short timeout, the "state" precedes value of the task_struct ->state field, and the "cpu" indicates that the grace-period kthread last ran on CPU 5. +If the relevant grace-period kthread does not wake from FQS wait in a +reasonable time, then the following additional line is printed:: + + kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 23804 jiffies! g7076 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 + +The "23804" indicates that kthread's timer expired more than 23 thousand +jiffies ago. The rest of the line has meaning similar to the kthread +starvation case. + +Additionally, the following line is printed:: + + Possible timer handling issue on cpu=4 timer-softirq=11142 + +Here "cpu" indicates that the grace-period kthread last ran on CPU 4, +where it queued the fqs timer. The number following the "timer-softirq" +is the current ``TIMER_SOFTIRQ`` count on cpu 4. If this value does not +change on successive RCU CPU stall warnings, there is further reason to +suspect a timer problem. + Multiple Warnings From One Stall ================================ diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 40e5e3dd253e..e918f100cc34 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ static bool rcu_gp_init(void) * go offline later. Please also refer to "Hotplug CPU" section * of RCU's Requirements documentation. */ - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_ONOFF; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_ONOFF); rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) { smp_mb(); // Pair with barriers used when updating ->ofl_seq to odd values. firstseq = READ_ONCE(rnp->ofl_seq); @@ -1831,7 +1831,7 @@ static bool rcu_gp_init(void) * The grace period cannot complete until the initialization * process finishes, because this kthread handles both. */ - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_INIT; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_INIT); rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(rnp) { rcu_gp_slow(gp_init_delay); raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); @@ -1930,17 +1930,22 @@ static void rcu_gp_fqs_loop(void) ret = 0; for (;;) { if (!ret) { - rcu_state.jiffies_force_qs = jiffies + j; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.jiffies_force_qs, jiffies + j); + /* + * jiffies_force_qs before RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS state + * update; required for stall checks. + */ + smp_wmb(); WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.jiffies_kick_kthreads, jiffies + (j ? 3 * j : 2)); } trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq, TPS("fqswait")); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS); ret = swait_event_idle_timeout_exclusive( rcu_state.gp_wq, rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake(&gf), j); rcu_gp_torture_wait(); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_DOING_FQS; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_DOING_FQS); /* Locking provides needed memory barriers. */ /* If grace period done, leave loop. */ if (!READ_ONCE(rnp->qsmask) && @@ -2054,7 +2059,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_cleanup(void) trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq, TPS("end")); rcu_seq_end(&rcu_state.gp_seq); ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(rcu_state.gp_seq); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_IDLE; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_IDLE); /* Check for GP requests since above loop. */ rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data); if (!needgp && ULONG_CMP_LT(rnp->gp_seq, rnp->gp_seq_needed)) { @@ -2093,12 +2098,12 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *unused) for (;;) { trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq, TPS("reqwait")); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_WAIT_GPS; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_WAIT_GPS); swait_event_idle_exclusive(rcu_state.gp_wq, READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags) & RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT); rcu_gp_torture_wait(); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_DONE_GPS; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_DONE_GPS); /* Locking provides needed memory barrier. */ if (rcu_gp_init()) break; @@ -2113,9 +2118,9 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *unused) rcu_gp_fqs_loop(); /* Handle grace-period end. */ - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_CLEANUP; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_CLEANUP); rcu_gp_cleanup(); - rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_CLEANED; + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_CLEANED); } } diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index 29cf096b5d20..353da30bd558 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -482,6 +482,36 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void) } } +/* Complain about missing wakeups from expired fqs wait timer */ +static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(void) +{ + struct task_struct *gpk = rcu_state.gp_kthread; + short gp_state; + unsigned long jiffies_fqs; + int cpu; + + /* + * Order reads of .gp_state and .jiffies_force_qs. + * Matching smp_wmb() is present in rcu_gp_fqs_loop(). + */ + gp_state = smp_load_acquire(&rcu_state.gp_state); + jiffies_fqs = READ_ONCE(rcu_state.jiffies_force_qs); + + if (gp_state == RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS && + time_after(jiffies, jiffies_fqs + RCU_STALL_MIGHT_MIN) && + gpk && !READ_ONCE(gpk->on_rq)) { + cpu = task_cpu(gpk); + pr_err("%s kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#lx\n", + rcu_state.name, (jiffies - jiffies_fqs), + (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq), + data_race(rcu_state.gp_flags), + gp_state_getname(RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS), RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS, + gpk->state); + pr_err("\tPossible timer handling issue on cpu=%d timer-softirq=%u\n", + cpu, kstat_softirqs_cpu(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, cpu)); + } +} + static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps) { int cpu; @@ -543,6 +573,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps) WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.jiffies_stall, jiffies + 3 * rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check() + 3); + rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(); rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(); panic_on_rcu_stall(); @@ -578,6 +609,7 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(unsigned long gps) jiffies - gps, (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq), totqlen); + rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(); rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(); rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(); |