From a1ff03cd6fb9c501fff63a4a2bface9adcfa81cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 01:01:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall On some rare cases, the timekeeper CPU may be delaying its jiffies update duty for a while. Known causes include: * The timekeeper is waiting on stop_machine in a MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ or MULTI_STOP_RUN state. Disabled interrupts prevent from timekeeping updates while waiting for the target CPU to complete its stop_machine() callback. * The timekeeper vcpu has VMEXIT'ed for a long while due to some overload on the host. Detect and fix these situations with emergency timekeeping catchups. Original-patch-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 17a283ce2b20..c89f50a7e690 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static ktime_t tick_init_jiffy_update(void) return period; } +#define MAX_STALLED_JIFFIES 5 + static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); @@ -196,6 +198,21 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu) tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + /* + * If jiffies update stalled for too long (timekeeper in stop_machine() + * or VMEXIT'ed for several msecs), force an update. + */ + if (ts->last_tick_jiffies != jiffies) { + ts->stalled_jiffies = 0; + ts->last_tick_jiffies = READ_ONCE(jiffies); + } else { + if (++ts->stalled_jiffies == MAX_STALLED_JIFFIES) { + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + ts->stalled_jiffies = 0; + ts->last_tick_jiffies = READ_ONCE(jiffies); + } + } + if (ts->inidle) ts->got_idle_tick = 1; } diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h index d952ae393423..504649513399 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ enum tick_nohz_mode { * @timer_expires_base: Base time clock monotonic for @timer_expires * @next_timer: Expiry time of next expiring timer for debugging purpose only * @tick_dep_mask: Tick dependency mask - is set, if someone needs the tick + * @last_tick_jiffies: Value of jiffies seen on last tick + * @stalled_jiffies: Number of stalled jiffies detected across ticks */ struct tick_sched { struct hrtimer sched_timer; @@ -77,6 +79,8 @@ struct tick_sched { u64 next_timer; ktime_t idle_expires; atomic_t tick_dep_mask; + unsigned long last_tick_jiffies; + unsigned int stalled_jiffies; }; extern struct tick_sched *tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu);