[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups

Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing
softirq-context (timer) dependencies.  This means that if the softlockup
watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds
scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task.

(the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup
phase and does small style fixes)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/softlockup.c b/kernel/softlockup.c
index c67189a25d52..dd9524fa649a 100644
--- a/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ b/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 /*
  * Detect Soft Lockups
  *
- * started by Ingo Molnar, (C) 2005, Red Hat
+ * started by Ingo Molnar, Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * this code detects soft lockups: incidents in where on a CPU
  * the kernel does not reschedule for 10 seconds or more.
  */
-
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -17,13 +16,14 @@
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(print_lock);
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, timestamp) = 0;
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, print_timestamp) = 0;
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, touch_timestamp);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, print_timestamp);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, watchdog_task);
 
 static int did_panic = 0;
-static int softlock_panic(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
-                                void *ptr)
+
+static int
+softlock_panic(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, void *ptr)
 {
         did_panic = 1;
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static struct notifier_block panic_block = {
 
 void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void)
 {
-        per_cpu(timestamp, raw_smp_processor_id()) = jiffies;
+        per_cpu(touch_timestamp, raw_smp_processor_id()) = jiffies;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_softlockup_watchdog);
 
@@ -44,25 +44,35 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_softlockup_watchdog);
  * This callback runs from the timer interrupt, and checks
  * whether the watchdog thread has hung or not:
  */
-void softlockup_tick(struct pt_regs *regs)
+void softlockup_tick(void)
 {
         int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
-        unsigned long timestamp = per_cpu(timestamp, this_cpu);
+        unsigned long touch_timestamp = per_cpu(touch_timestamp, this_cpu);
 
-        if (per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) == timestamp)
+        /* prevent double reports: */
+        if (per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) == touch_timestamp ||
+                did_panic ||
+                        !per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu))
                 return;
 
-        /* Do not cause a second panic when there already was one */
-        if (did_panic)
+        /* do not print during early bootup: */
+        if (unlikely(system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)) {
+                touch_softlockup_watchdog();
                 return;
+        }
 
-        if (time_after(jiffies, timestamp + 10*HZ)) {
-                per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) = timestamp;
+        /* Wake up the high-prio watchdog task every second: */
+        if (time_after(jiffies, touch_timestamp + HZ))
+                wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu));
+
+        /* Warn about unreasonable 10+ seconds delays: */
+        if (time_after(jiffies, touch_timestamp + 10*HZ)) {
+                per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) = touch_timestamp;
 
                 spin_lock(&print_lock);
                 printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#%d!\n",
                         this_cpu);
-                show_regs(regs);
+                dump_stack();
                 spin_unlock(&print_lock);
         }
 }
@@ -77,18 +87,16 @@ static int watchdog(void * __bind_cpu)
         sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
         current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 
-        set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-
         /*
-         * Run briefly once per second - if this gets delayed for
-         * more than 10 seconds then the debug-printout triggers
-         * in softlockup_tick():
+         * Run briefly once per second to reset the softlockup timestamp.
+         * If this gets delayed for more than 10 seconds then the
+         * debug-printout triggers in softlockup_tick().
          */
         while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-                msleep_interruptible(1000);
+                set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
+                schedule();
         }
-        __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
         return 0;
 }
@@ -114,7 +122,6 @@ cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
                 kthread_bind(p, hotcpu);
                 break;
         case CPU_ONLINE:
-
                 wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu));
                 break;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -146,4 +153,3 @@ __init void spawn_softlockup_task(void)
 
         notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block);
 }
-
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 4427e725ccdd..17d956cebcb9 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -915,6 +915,7 @@ static void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
 void run_local_timers(void)
 {
         raise_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+        softlockup_tick();
 }
 
 /*
@@ -945,7 +946,6 @@ void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
         /* prevent loading jiffies before storing new jiffies_64 value. */
         barrier();
         update_times();
-        softlockup_tick(regs);
 }
 
 #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_ALARM