[PATCHv3 0/4] watchdog_hld cleanup and async model for arm64

Pingfan Liu kernelfans at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 19:41:51 PDT 2021


Hard lockup detector is helpful to diagnose unpaired irq enable/disable.
But the current watchdog framework can not cope with arm64 hw perf event
easily.

On arm64, when lockup_detector_init()->watchdog_nmi_probe(), PMU is not
ready until device_initcall(armv8_pmu_driver_init).  And it is deeply
integrated with the driver model and cpuhp. Hence it is hard to push the
initialization of armv8_pmu_driver_init() before smp_init().

But it is easy to take an opposite approach by enabling watchdog_hld to
get the capability of PMU async. 
The async model is achieved by expanding watchdog_nmi_probe() with
-EBUSY, and a re-initializing work_struct which waits on a
wait_queue_head.

In this series, [1-2/4] are trivial cleanup. [3-4/4] is for this async
model.

v2 -> v3:
    check the delay work waken up and flush the work before __initdata is free.
    improve the commit log of [4/4]
    rebase to v5.15-rc5

v1 > v2:
    uplift the async model from hard lockup layer to watchdog layter.
The benefit is simpler code, the drawback is re-initialize means wasted
alloc/free.
    
Cc: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing at vivo.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh at fossix.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

*** BLURB HERE ***

Pingfan Liu (3):
  kernel/watchdog: trival cleanups
  kernel/watchdog_hld: Ensure CPU-bound context when creating hardlockup
    detector event
  kernel/watchdog: Adapt the watchdog_hld interface for async model

Sumit Garg (1):
  arm64: Enable perf events based hard lockup detector

 arch/arm64/Kconfig               |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile       |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c   | 11 ++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
 arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c          |  8 ++---
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c           |  5 +++
 include/linux/nmi.h              | 11 +++++-
 include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h     |  2 ++
 kernel/watchdog.c                | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 kernel/watchdog_hld.c            |  5 ++-
 10 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/watchdog_hld.c

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