[PATCH 0/5] watchdog_hld cleanup and async model for arm64

Pingfan Liu kernelfans at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 20:50:58 PDT 2021


hard lockup detector is helpful to diagnose unpaired irq enable/disable.
Sumit has tried with a series, and the last one is V5 [1].
Since it lasts a long time without any update, I takes a retry, which
addresses the delay intialization of watchdog_hld.

There is an obstacle to integrate arm64 hw perf event into watchdog_hld.
When lockup_detector_init()->watchdog_nmi_probe(), on arm64, 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
introducing an extra parameter notifier of watchdog_nmi_probe().

In this series, [1-2/5] are trivial cleanup. [3-5/5] is for this async
model.
    
[1]: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1610712101-14929-1-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org

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: Julien Thierry <jthierry at redhat.com>
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


Pingfan Liu (5):
  kernel/watchdog: remove useless WATCHDOG_DEFAULT
  kernel/watchdog_hld: clarify the condition in
    hardlockup_detector_event_create()
  kernel/watchdog: adapt the watchdog_hld interface for async model
  kernel/watchdog_hld: simplify the detecting of hld watchdog
  arm64/watchdog_hld: enable hard lockup on arm64 platform

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                  |  3 ++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h |  5 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile          |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c      | 14 ++++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/watchdog_hld.c    | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c              |  5 ++
 include/linux/nmi.h                 | 20 ++++---
 kernel/watchdog.c                   | 69 ++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/watchdog_hld.c               | 26 +++------
 9 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/watchdog_hld.c

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