Paul Mackerras brought up a good point that when fallbacking to
software events, I may have been lucky in my configuration.
Modified the code to explicit provide a new configuration for
software events.
Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Re-arrange the code so that when someone disables nmi_watchdog
with:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
it releases the hardware reservation on the PMUs. This allows
the oprofile module to grab those PMUs and do its thing.
Otherwise oprofile fails to load because the hardware is
reserved by the perf_events subsystem.
Tested using:
oprofile --vm-linux --start
and watched it failed when nmi_watchdog is enabled and succeed
when:
oprofile --deinit && echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
is run.
Note: this has the side quirk of having the nmi_watchdog latch
onto the software events instead of hardware events if oprofile
has already reserved the hardware first. User beware! :-)
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Not all arches have a PMU or have perf_event support for their
PMU. The nmi_watchdog will fail in those cases. Fallback to
using software events to generate nmi_watchdog traffic with
local apic interrupts.
Tested on a Pentium4 and it worked as expected, excepting for
detecting cpu lockups.
The problem with using software events as a cpu lock up detector
is the nmi_watchdog uses the logic that if local apic interrupts
stop incrementing then the cpu is probably locked up. But with
software events we use the local apic to trigger the
nmi_watchdog callback to see if local apic interrupts are still
firing, which obviously they are otherwise we wouldn't have been
triggered.
The algorithm to detect cpu lock ups is the same as the old
nmi_watchdog. Perhaps we need to find a better way to detect
lock ups?
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The original patch was x86_64 centric. Changed the code to make
it less so.
ested by building and running on a powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is a new generic nmi_watchdog implementation using the perf
events infrastructure as suggested by Ingo.
The implementation is simple, just create an in-kernel perf
event and register an overflow handler to check for cpu lockups.
I created a generic implementation that lives in kernel/ and
the hardware specific part that for now lives in arch/x86.
This approach has a number of advantages:
- It simplifies the x86 PMU implementation in the long run,
in that it removes the hardcoded low-level PMU implementation
that was the NMI watchdog before.
- It allows new NMI watchdog features to be added in a central
place.
- It allows other architectures to enable the NMI watchdog,
as long as they have perf events (that provide NMIs)
implemented.
- It also allows for more graceful co-existence of existing
perf events apps and the NMI watchdog - before these changes
the relationship was exclusive. (The NMI watchdog will 'spend'
a perf event when enabled. In later iterations we might be
able to piggyback from an existing NMI event without having
to allocate a hardware event for the NMI watchdog - turning
this into a no-hardware-cost feature.)
As for compatibility, we'll keep the old NMI watchdog code as
well until the new one can 100% replace it on all CPUs, old and
new alike. That might take some time as the NMI watchdog has
been ported to many CPU models.
I have done light testing to make sure the framework works
correctly and it does.
v2: Set the correct timeout values based on the old nmi
watchdog
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Don Zickus