user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/nmi.h, branch v3.17

acpi, apei, ghes: Make NMI error notification to be GHES architecture extension.

2014-07-22T22:05:06Z

Currently APEI depends on x86 architecture. It is because of NMI hardware error notification of GHES which is currently supported by x86 only. However, many other APEI features can be still used perfectly by other architectures. This commit adds two symbols: 1. HAVE_ACPI_APEI for those archs which support APEI. 2. HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI which is used for NMI code isolation in ghes.c file. NMI related data and functions are grouped so they can be wrapped inside one #ifdef section. Appropriate function stubs are provided for !NMI case. Note there is no functional changes for x86 due to hard selected HAVE_ACPI_APEI and HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI symbols. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection

2014-06-23T23:47:44Z

A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving other tasks a chance to run. Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system log. On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the actual "culprit" (i.e. the owner/holder of the contended resource) is reported to the user. Often this information has proven to be insufficient to assist debugging efforts. To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup reporting. This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain a stack trace. If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method. A sysctl and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature. [dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations] [mq@suse.cz: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nmi: provide the option to issue an NMI back trace to every cpu but current

2014-06-23T23:47:44Z

Sometimes it is preferred not to use the trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() routine when one wants to avoid capturing a back trace for current. For instance if one was previously captured recently. This patch provides a new routine namely trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace() which offers the flexibility to issue an NMI to every cpu but current and capture a back trace accordingly. Patch x86 and sparc to support new routine. [dzickus@redhat.com: add stub in #else clause] [dzickus@redhat.com: don't print message in single processor case, wrap with get/put_cpu based on Oleg's suggestion] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: undo C99ism] Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: Rename confusing state variable

2013-06-20T13:41:18Z

We have two very conflicting state variable names in the watchdog: * watchdog_enabled: This one reflects the user interface. It's set to 1 by default and can be overriden with boot options or sysctl/procfs interface. * watchdog_disabled: This is the internal toggle state that tells if watchdog threads, timers and NMI events are currently running or not. This state mostly depends on the user settings. It's a convenient state latch. Now we really need to find clearer names because those are just too confusing to encourage deep review. watchdog_enabled now becomes watchdog_user_enabled to reflect its purpose as an interface. watchdog_disabled becomes watchdog_running to suggest its role as a pure internal state. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: Anish Singh Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Don Zickus

nmi watchdog: do not use cpp symbol in Kconfig

2012-03-23T23:58:31Z

ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG is a macro defined by arch, but config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR depends on it. This is wrong, ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG has to be a Kconfig config, and arch's need it should select it explicitly. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Cc: David Howells Cc: David Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh

2011-05-23T09:58:59Z

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 Cc: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>

watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero

2011-05-23T09:58:59Z

This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>

x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and rely on CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR

2010-12-22T21:15:32Z

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 Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1293044403-14117-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

lockup detector: Compile fixes from removing the old x86 nmi watchdog

2010-12-09T23:01:06Z

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 Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: yinghai@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove all stub function calls from old nmi_watchdog

2010-11-18T08:08:23Z

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 Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org LKML-Reference: <1289578944-28564-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar