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

Doug Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Thu Apr 20 16:37:59 EDT 2017


Hi,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> 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.

Maybe.  I remember some of the timestamp code being a might bit odd.
Specifically there might have been cases where the timestamp code
predictable slower in some cases, but that slowness would be blamed on
the wrong function.  I think this might have to do with some of the
the fact that a memory mapped read could block until other outstanding
memory mapped operations finished.

-Doug



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