usb: dwc2: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 146s

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Apr 20 15:57:35 EDT 2017


Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> hat am 18. April 2017 um 22:41 geschrieben:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's hard to know for sure that all of this time is really in
>>>> urb_enqueue().  Possible we could have task switched out and been
>>>> blocked elsewhere.  Using ftrace to get more fine-grained timings
>>>> would be useful.  ktime_get(), ktime_sub(), and ktime_to_us() are your
>>>> friends here if you want to use trace_printk.
>>>
>>> i'm a newbie to ftrace, so i hope this would be helpful.
>>>
>>> # connect PL2303 to the onboard hub
>>> # echo 0 > options/sleep-time
>>> # echo 0 > function_profile_enabled
>>> # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
>>> # ./usb_test
>>> # Waiting for at least 20 seconds and then disconnect PL2303
>>> # echo 0 > function_profile_enabled
>>> # cat trace_stat/function0
>>>
>>>   Function                               Hit    Time            Avg             s^2
>>>   --------                               ---    ----            ---             ---
>>>   bcm2835_handle_irq                  361347    219567633 us     607.636 us      1485199 us
>>>   __handle_domain_irq                1082482    212639551 us     196.437 us      3642030 us
>>>   generic_handle_irq                 1082482    100592051 us     92.927 us       50511334 us
>>>   irq_exit                           1082482    98197771 us     90.715 us       29649040 us
>>>   handle_level_irq                   1082482    95812379 us     88.511 us       51910093 us
>>
>> If I'm reading this output right, we're spending half of our interrupt
>> processing time in irq_exit(), so even if dwc2's interrupt was free (the
>> generic_handle_irq() chain), we'd be eating about half the CPU getting
>> back out of the interrupt handler, right?
>>
>> I don't really know anything about DWC2 or USB, but is there any way we
>> could mitigate the interrupt frequency with this hardware?  If nothing
>> else, could we loop reading gintsts until it reads back 0?
>
> Take ftrace with a little bit of a grain of salt, especially on older
> / slower ARMs (without the arch timer).  Whenever ftrace takes a log
> it grabs a timestamp.  This can be an expensive (ish) operation.  Even
> on newer CPUs it's still not free if you call it as much as ftrace,
> but on older CPUs it's extra expensive.

If per-function timestamp cost was the problem, shouldn't I expect to
see a bunch of irq_exit()'s children each taking a bit of time?  We have
a long callchain with the functions each taking a bit of time in the
dwc2 interrupt handler, but irq_exit() seems to be a monolithic cost.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 832 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20170420/7d2ce091/attachment.sig>


More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list