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Don Zickus 9c48f1c629 x86, nmi: Wire up NMI handlers to new routines
Just convert all the files that have an nmi handler to the new routines.
Most of it is straight forward conversion.  A couple of places needed some
tweaking like kgdb which separates the debug notifier from the nmi handler
and mce removes a call to notify_die.

[Thanks to Ying for finding out the history behind that mce call

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/27/114

And Boris responding that he would like to remove that call because of it

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/21/163]

The things that get converted are the registeration/unregistration routines
and the nmi handler itself has its args changed along with code removal
to check which list it is on (most are on one NMI list except for kgdb
which has both an NMI routine and an NMI Unknown routine).

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317409584-23662-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-10 06:56:57 +02:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 4eec42f392 watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh
Before the conversion of the NMI watchdog to perf event, the
watchdog timeout was 5 seconds. Now it is 60 seconds. For my
particular application, netbooks, 5 seconds was a better
timeout. With a short timeout, we catch faults earlier and are
able to send back a panic. With a 60 second timeout, the user is
unlikely to wait and will instead hit the power button, causing
us to lose the panic info.

This change configures the NMI period to watchdog_thresh and
sets the softlockup_thresh to watchdog_thresh * 2. In addition,
watchdog_thresh was reduced to 10 seconds as suggested by Ingo
Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23 11:58:59 +02:00
Jean Delvare ca444564a9 x86: Stop including <linux/delay.h> in two asm header files
Stop including <linux/delay.h> in x86 header files which don't
need it. This will let the compiler complain when this header is
not included by source files when it should, so that
contributors can fix the problem before building on other
architectures starts to fail.

Credits go to Geert for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <20110325152014.297890ec@endymion.delvare>
[ this also fixes an upstream build bug in drivers/media/rc/ite-cir.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-29 09:37:42 +02:00
Jan Beulich bb3e6251a6 x86: Don't call dump_stack() from arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler()
show_regs() already prints two(!) stack traces, no need for a third one.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D5D512902000078000326EE@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-18 08:52:29 +01:00
Don Zickus c410b83077 x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI
With priorities in place and no one really understanding the difference between
DIE_NMI and DIE_NMI_IPI, just remove DIE_NMI_IPI and convert everyone to DIE_NMI.

This also simplifies default_do_nmi() a little bit.  Instead of calling the
die_notifier in both the if and else part, just pull it out and call it before
the if-statement.  This has the side benefit of avoiding a call to the ioport
to see if there is an external NMI sitting around until after the (more frequent)
internal NMIs are dealt with.

Patch-Inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294348732-15030-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:08:53 +01:00
Don Zickus 166d751479 x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers
In order to consolidate the NMI die_chain events, we need to setup the priorities
for the die notifiers.

I started by defining a bunch of common priorities that can be used by the
notifier blocks.  Then I modified the notifier blocks to use the newly created
priorities.

Now that the priorities are straightened out, it should be easier to remove the
event DIE_NMI_IPI.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294348732-15030-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:08:52 +01:00
Dongdong Deng 554ec06398 x86: Avoid calling arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() at the same time
The spin_lock_debug/rcu_cpu_stall detector uses
trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() to dump cpu backtrace.
Therefore it is possible that trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()
could be called at the same time on different CPUs, which
triggers and 'unknown reason NMI' warning. The following case
illustrates the problem:

      CPU1                    CPU2                     ...   CPU N
                       trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()
                       set "backtrace_mask" to cpu mask
                               |
generate NMI interrupts  generate NMI interrupts       ...
    \                          |                               /
     \                         |                              /

The "backtrace_mask" will be cleaned by the first NMI interrupt
at nmi_watchdog_tick(), then the following NMI interrupts
generated by other cpus's arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() will
be taken as unknown reason NMI interrupts.

This patch uses a test_and_set to avoid the problem, and stop
the arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() from calling to avoid
dumping a double cpu backtrace info when there is already a
trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() in progress.

Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1294198689-15447-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
2011-01-05 14:22:57 +01:00
Don Zickus 9ab181fa9f x86: Only call smp_processor_id in non-preempt cases
There are some paths that walk the die_chain with preemption on.
Make sure we are in an NMI call before we start doing anything.

This was triggered by do_general_protection calling notify_die
with DIE_GPF.

Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294198689-15447-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:22:57 +01:00
Don Zickus 4a7863cc2e x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and rely on CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
The x86 arch has shifted its use of the nmi_watchdog from a
local implementation to the global one provide by
kernel/watchdog.c.  This shift has caused a whole bunch of
compile problems under different config options.  I attempt to
simplify things with the patch below.

In order to simplify things, I had to come to terms with the
meaning of two terms ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR.  Basically they mean the same thing,
the former on a local level and the latter on a global level.

With the old x86 nmi watchdog gone, there is no need to rely on
defining the ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG variable because it doesn't
make sense any more.  x86 will now use the global
implementation.

The changes below do a few things.  First it changes the few
places that relied on ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG to use
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC (the former was an alias for the latter
anyway, so nothing unusual here).  Those pieces of code were
relying more on local apic functionality the nmi watchdog
functionality, so the change should make sense.

Second, I removed the x86 implementation of
touch_nmi_watchdog().  It isn't need now, instead x86 will rely
on kernel/watchdog.c's implementation.

Third, I removed the #define ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG itself from
x86.  And tweaked the include/linux/nmi.h file to tell users to
look for an externally defined touch_nmi_watchdog in the case of
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _or_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. This
changes removes some of the ugliness in that file.

Finally, I added a Kconfig dependency for
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR that said you can't have
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG _and_ CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR.  You can
only have one nmi_watchdog.

Tested with
ARCH=i386: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig, (various broken
configs) ARCH=x86_64: allnoconfig, defconfig, allyesconfig,
(various broken configs)

Hopefully, after this patch I won't get any more compile broken
emails. :-)

v3:
  changed a couple of 'linux/nmi.h' -> 'asm/nmi.h' to pick-up correct function
  prototypes when CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1293044403-14117-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-22 22:15:32 +01:00
Don Zickus 5f29805a4f x86, watchdog: Compile fix when CONFIG_LOCAL_APIC not enabled
When adjusting the code to handle removing the old nmi watchdog,
I forgot to consider the compile case when the local apic is not
enabled.

This change fixes the following build error:

  arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:28:6: error: redefinition of ‘touch_nmi_watchdog’

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101213153719.GD18577@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-13 18:23:23 +01:00
Don Zickus 5dc3055879 x86, NMI: Add back unknown_nmi_panic and nmi_watchdog sysctls
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the
unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file.  Because the old nmi
watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the
unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost.  This re-adds it.

Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its
documentation updated accordingly.

Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-10 00:01:06 +01:00
Don Zickus 96a84c20d6 lockup detector: Compile fixes from removing the old x86 nmi watchdog
My patch that removed the old x86 nmi watchdog broke other
arches.  This change reverts a piece of that patch and puts the
change in the correct spot.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-10 00:01:06 +01:00
Rakib Mullick 2c6cb1053a x86: Address 'unused' warning in hw_nmi.c again
arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:29: warning: backtrace_mask defined but not used

commit 0e2af2a9(x86, hw_nmi: Move backtrace_mask declaration under
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG) addressed this warning, but it was reintroduced
by commit 5f2b0ba4(x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove the old nmi_watchdog).

Move backtrace_mask into the #ifdef arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace
section again.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=rcc38QzoKa6LFy4m++-p_9=Zt4_kDQE=GeKxf@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-12-09 16:06:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6c869e772c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c

Merge reason: Resolve conflict, queue up dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:07:02 +01:00
Rakib Mullick 0e2af2a9ab x86, hw_nmi: Move backtrace_mask declaration under ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
backtrace_mask has been used under the code context of
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG. So put it into that context.
We were warned by the following warning:

  arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:21: warning: ‘backtrace_mask’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289573455-3410-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 09:15:12 +01:00
Don Zickus 072b198a4a x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove all stub function calls from old nmi_watchdog
Now that the bulk of the old nmi_watchdog is gone, remove all
the stub variables and hooks associated with it.

This touches lots of files mainly because of how the io_apic
nmi_watchdog was implemented.  Now that the io_apic nmi_watchdog
is forever gone, remove all its fingers.

Most of this code was not being exercised by virtue of
nmi_watchdog != NMI_IO_APIC, so there shouldn't be anything to
risky here.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
LKML-Reference: <1289578944-28564-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 09:08:23 +01:00
Don Zickus 5f2b0ba4d9 x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove the old nmi_watchdog
Now that we have a new nmi_watchdog that is more generic and
sits on top of the perf subsystem, we really do not need the old
nmi_watchdog any more.

In addition, the old nmi_watchdog doesn't really work if you are
using the default clocksource, hpet.  The old nmi_watchdog code
relied on local apic interrupts to determine if the cpu is still
alive.  With hpet as the clocksource, these interrupts don't
increment any more and the old nmi_watchdog triggers false
postives.

This piece removes the old nmi_watchdog code and stubs out any
variables and functions calls.  The stubs are the same ones used
by the new nmi_watchdog code, so it should be well tested.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
LKML-Reference: <1289578944-28564-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 09:08:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5e85391b3b x86, watchdog: Fix build error in hw_nmi.c
On some configs the following build error triggers:

 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:35: error: 'apic' undeclared (first use in this function)
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:35: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c:35: error: for each function it appears in.)

Because asm/apic.h was only included implicitly. Include it explicitly.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273713674-8434-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-13 09:12:39 +02:00
Don Zickus 10f9014912 x86: Cleanup hw_nmi.c cruft
The design of the hardlockup watchdog has changed and cruft was left
behind in the hw_nmi.c file.  Just remove the code that isn't used
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-7-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:48 +02:00
Don Zickus 7cbb7e7fa4 x86: Move trigger_all_cpu_backtrace to its own die_notifier
As part of the transition of the nmi watchdog to something more
generic, the trigger_all_cpu_backtrace code is getting left behind.
Put it in its own die_notifier so it can still be used.

V2:
- use arch_spin_locks

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-6-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:47 +02:00
Don Zickus 58687acba5 lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector.  Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.

Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.

To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event.  If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.

To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.

I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.

V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events

V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions

V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes

V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups

TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
  (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period

[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:33 +02:00
Don Zickus 47195d5763 nmi_watchdog: Clean up various small details
Mostly copy/paste whitespace damage with a couple of nitpicks by
the checkpatch script. Fix the struct definition as requested by Ingo too.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266880143-24943-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c |   14 +++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c       |    6 ++--
 include/linux/nmi.h           |    2 -
 kernel/nmi_watchdog.c         |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
2010-02-25 12:40:50 +01:00
Don Zickus 2cc4452bc3 nmi_watchdog: Fix undefined 'apic' build bug
Ingo provided me a config that fails to compile with:

  arch/x86/built-in.o: In function
  `arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace': (.text+0x17e78): undefined
  reference to `apic' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

I realized I changed the compile behaviour of the nmi code by
not wrapping it with CONFIG_LOCAL_APIC.  To fix this I add a
compile check for ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG around
arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266548212-24243-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-19 23:04:13 +01:00
Don Zickus 504d7cf10e nmi_watchdog: Compile and portability fixes
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
LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-14 09:19:43 +01:00
Don Zickus 1fb9d6ad27 nmi_watchdog: Add new, generic implementation, using perf events
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
LKML-Reference: <1265424425-31562-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:29:02 +01:00