linux-stable.git/kernel/softirq.c, branch v3.4.112

Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck in __do_softirq.

2015-06-19T03:40:32+00:00

commit 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 upstream.

The stop machine logic can lock up if all but one of the migration
threads make it through the disable-irq step and the one remaining
thread gets stuck in __do_softirq.  The reason __do_softirq can hang is
that it has a bail-out based on jiffies timeout, but in the lockup case,
jiffies itself is not incremented.

To work around this, re-add the max_restart counter in __do_irq and stop
processing irqs after 10 restarts.

Thanks to Tejun Heo and Rusty Russell and others for helping me track
this down.

This was introduced in 3.9 by commit c10d73671ad3 ("softirq: reduce
latencies").

It may be worth looking into ath9k to see if it has issues with its irq
handler at a later date.

The hang stack traces look something like this:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: at kernel/watchdog.c:245 watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7()
    Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2
    Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc]
    Pid: 23, comm: migration/2 Tainted: G         C   3.9.4+ #11
    Call Trace:
        warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9f
      warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48
      watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7
      __perf_event_overflow+0x137/0x1cb
      perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x16
      intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x2dc/0x359
      perf_event_nmi_handler+0x19/0x1b
      nmi_handle+0x7f/0xc2
      do_nmi+0xbc/0x304
      end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
     <>
      cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162
      smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260
      kthread+0xc7/0xcf
      ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    ---[ end trace 4947dfa9b0a4cec3 ]---
    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [migration/1:17]
    Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc]
    irq event stamp: 835637905
    hardirqs last  enabled at (835637904): __do_softirq+0x9f/0x257
    hardirqs last disabled at (835637905): apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
    softirqs last  enabled at (5654720): __do_softirq+0x1ff/0x257
    softirqs last disabled at (5654725): irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb
    CPU 1
    Pid: 17, comm: migration/1 Tainted: G        WC   3.9.4+ #11 To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M.
    RIP: tasklet_hi_action+0xf0/0xf0
    Process migration/1
    Call Trace:
     
      __do_softirq+0x117/0x257
      irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb
      smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0x98
      apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x80
     
      printk+0x4d/0x4f
      stop_machine_cpu_stop+0x22c/0x274
      cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162
      smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260
      kthread+0xc7/0xcf
      ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Pekka Riikonen 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[xr: Backported to 3.4: Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li

softirq: reduce latencies

2015-06-19T03:40:31+00:00

commit c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a upstream.

In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up
to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100.

This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher,
and some actions can consume a lot of cycles.

This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to :

- A time limit of 2 ms.
- need_resched() being set on current task

When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further
softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs.

Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls,
as we can keep BH disabled for too long.

I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in
throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order
of magnitude) :

In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in
background, using all available cpus.

Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC
IRQ (hard+soft)

Before patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=550110.424
MIN_LATENCY=146858
MAX_LATENCY=997109
P50_LATENCY=305000
P90_LATENCY=550000
P99_LATENCY=710000
MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12
STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92

After patch :

# netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k
RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=40545.492
MIN_LATENCY=9834
MAX_LATENCY=78366
P50_LATENCY=33583
P90_LATENCY=59000
P99_LATENCY=69000
MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67
STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
[xr: Backported to 3.4: Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-20T17:32:09+00:00

Pull timer changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  ntp: Fix integer overflow when setting time
  math: Introduce div64_long
  cs5535-clockevt: Allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared
  cs5535-clockevt: Don't ignore MFGPT on SMP-capable kernels
  x86/time: Eliminate unused irq0_irqs counter
  clocksource: scx200_hrt: Fix the build
  x86/tsc: Reduce the TSC sync check time for core-siblings
  timer: Fix bad idle check on irq entry
  nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tick
  nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle
  clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed
  clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously
  clocksource: scx200_hrt: Convert scx200 to use clocksource_register_hz
  clocksource: Get rid of clocksource_calc_mult_shift()
  clocksource: dbx500: convert to clocksource_register_hz()
  clocksource: scx200_hrt:  use pr_ instead of printk
  time: Move common updates to a function
  time: Reorder so the hot data is together
  time: Remove most of xtime_lock usage in timekeeping.c
  ntp: Add ntp_lock to replace xtime_locking
  ...

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-20T17:31:44+00:00

Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
  sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
  sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
  sched: Update yield() docs
  printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
  sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
  sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
  sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
  sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
  sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
  sched: Rename load-balancing fields
  sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
  sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
  sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
  sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
  sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
  sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
  sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
  sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
  ...

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-20T17:29:15+00:00

Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...

softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication

2012-03-06T12:33:27+00:00

The two invoke_softirq() variants are identical except for a single
line. So move the #ifdef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED inside one of
the functions and get rid of the other one.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites

2012-03-01T09:28:04+00:00

Create a distinction between scheduler related preempt_enable_no_resched()
calls and the nearly one hundred other places in the kernel that do not
want to reschedule, for one reason or another.

This distinction matters for -rt, where the scheduler and the non-scheduler
preempt models (and checks) are different. For upstream it's purely
documentational.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gs88fvx2mdv5psnzxnv575ke@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()

2012-03-01T09:28:03+00:00

Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

timer: Fix bad idle check on irq entry

2012-02-15T14:23:09+00:00

idle_cpu() is called on irq entry to guess if we need to call
tick_check_idle(). This way we can catch up with jiffies if the tick
was stopped, stop accounting idle time during the interrupt and
maintain the sched clock if it is unstable.

But if we are going to exit the idle loop to schedule a new task (ie:
if we have a task in the runqueue or a remotely enqueued ttwu to
perform), the idle_cpu() check will return 0 such that we miss the
call to tick_check_idle() for all interrupts happening before we
schedule the new task.

As a result these interrupts and the softirqs coming along may deal
with stale jiffies values, bad sched clock values, and won't substract
their time from the idle time accounting.

Fix this with using is_idle_task() instead that strictly checks that
we are running the idle task, without caring about the fact we are
going to schedule a task soon.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327427984-23282-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tracing/softirq: Move __raise_softirq_irqoff() out of header

2012-02-03T14:48:19+00:00

The __raise_softirq_irqoff() contains a tracepoint. As tracepoints in headers
can cause issues, and not to mention, bloats the kernel when they are
in a static inline, it is best to move the function that contains the
tracepoint out of the header and into softirq.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120118120711.GB14863@elte.hu

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt