Patch "kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kernel-watchdog.c-move-hardlockup-detector-to-separate-file.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 16:23:30 CEST 2017
From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:06:24 -0800
Subject: kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file

From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 73ce0511c43686095efd2f65ef564aab952e07bc ]

Separate hardlockup code from watchdog.c and move it to watchdog_hld.c.
It is mostly straight forward.  Remove everything inside
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTORS.  This code will go to file watchdog_hld.c.
Also update the makefile accordigly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-3-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/Makefile       |    1 
 kernel/watchdog.c     |  241 ++------------------------------------------------
 kernel/watchdog_hld.c |  227 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 230 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 kernel/watchdog_hld.c

--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += kprobes.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB) += debug/
 obj-$(CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK) += hung_task.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR) += watchdog.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR) += watchdog_hld.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SECCOMP) += seccomp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RELAY) += relay.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += utsname_sysctl.o
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
 #include <linux/kvm_para.h>
-#include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 
 /*
@@ -100,50 +99,9 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, soft_watchdo
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_task_ptr_saved);
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, hrtimer_interrupts_saved);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev);
-#endif
 static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn;
 
-/* boot commands */
-/*
- * Should we panic when a soft-lockup or hard-lockup occurs:
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-unsigned int __read_mostly hardlockup_panic =
-			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
-static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped;
-/*
- * We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases,
- * for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these
- * cases this function can be called to disable hard lockup detection. This
- * function should only be executed once by the boot processor before the
- * kernel command line parameters are parsed, because otherwise it is not
- * possible to override this in hardlockup_panic_setup().
- */
-void hardlockup_detector_disable(void)
-{
-	watchdog_enabled &= ~NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
-}
-
-static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str)
-{
-	if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5))
-		hardlockup_panic = 1;
-	else if (!strncmp(str, "nopanic", 7))
-		hardlockup_panic = 0;
-	else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1))
-		watchdog_enabled &= ~NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
-	else if (!strncmp(str, "1", 1))
-		watchdog_enabled |= NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
-	return 1;
-}
-__setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup);
-#endif
-
 unsigned int __read_mostly softlockup_panic =
 			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
 
@@ -264,30 +222,12 @@ void touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs(void
 	wq_watchdog_touch(-1);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Using __raw here because some code paths have
-	 * preemption enabled.  If preemption is enabled
-	 * then interrupts should be enabled too, in which
-	 * case we shouldn't have to worry about the watchdog
-	 * going off.
-	 */
-	raw_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, true);
-	touch_softlockup_watchdog();
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_nmi_watchdog);
-
-#endif
-
 void touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(void)
 {
 	__this_cpu_write(softlockup_touch_sync, true);
 	__this_cpu_write(watchdog_touch_ts, 0);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
 /* watchdog detector functions */
 static bool is_hardlockup(void)
 {
@@ -299,7 +239,6 @@ static bool is_hardlockup(void)
 	__this_cpu_write(hrtimer_interrupts_saved, hrint);
 	return false;
 }
-#endif
 
 static int is_softlockup(unsigned long touch_ts)
 {
@@ -313,77 +252,22 @@ static int is_softlockup(unsigned long t
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-
-static struct perf_event_attr wd_hw_attr = {
-	.type		= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
-	.config		= PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
-	.size		= sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
-	.pinned		= 1,
-	.disabled	= 1,
-};
-
-/* Callback function for perf event subsystem */
-static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
-		 struct perf_sample_data *data,
-		 struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-	/* Ensure the watchdog never gets throttled */
-	event->hw.interrupts = 0;
-
-	if (__this_cpu_read(watchdog_nmi_touch) == true) {
-		__this_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, false);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	/* check for a hardlockup
-	 * This is done by making sure our timer interrupt
-	 * is incrementing.  The timer interrupt should have
-	 * fired multiple times before we overflow'd.  If it hasn't
-	 * then this is a good indication the cpu is stuck
-	 */
-	if (is_hardlockup()) {
-		int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
-		/* only print hardlockups once */
-		if (__this_cpu_read(hard_watchdog_warn) == true)
-			return;
-
-		pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu);
-		print_modules();
-		print_irqtrace_events(current);
-		if (regs)
-			show_regs(regs);
-		else
-			dump_stack();
-
-		/*
-		 * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups
-		 * generating interleaving traces
-		 */
-		if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace &&
-				!test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped))
-			trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
-
-		if (hardlockup_panic)
-			nmi_panic(regs, "Hard LOCKUP");
-
-		__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, false);
-	return;
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR */
-
 static void watchdog_interrupt_count(void)
 {
 	__this_cpu_inc(hrtimer_interrupts);
 }
 
-static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu);
-static void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu);
+/*
+ * These two functions are mostly architecture specific
+ * defining them as weak here.
+ */
+int __weak watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+void __weak watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+}
 
 static int watchdog_enable_all_cpus(void);
 static void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void);
@@ -576,109 +460,6 @@ static void watchdog(unsigned int cpu)
 		watchdog_nmi_disable(cpu);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
-/*
- * People like the simple clean cpu node info on boot.
- * Reduce the watchdog noise by only printing messages
- * that are different from what cpu0 displayed.
- */
-static unsigned long cpu0_err;
-
-static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
-	struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
-
-	/* nothing to do if the hard lockup detector is disabled */
-	if (!(watchdog_enabled & NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED))
-		goto out;
-
-	/* is it already setup and enabled? */
-	if (event && event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
-		goto out;
-
-	/* it is setup but not enabled */
-	if (event != NULL)
-		goto out_enable;
-
-	wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
-	wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);
-
-	/* Try to register using hardware perf events */
-	event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL);
-
-	/* save cpu0 error for future comparision */
-	if (cpu == 0 && IS_ERR(event))
-		cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event);
-
-	if (!IS_ERR(event)) {
-		/* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */
-		if (cpu == 0 || cpu0_err)
-			pr_info("enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.\n");
-		goto out_save;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Disable the hard lockup detector if _any_ CPU fails to set up
-	 * set up the hardware perf event. The watchdog() function checks
-	 * the NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED bit periodically.
-	 *
-	 * The barriers are for syncing up watchdog_enabled across all the
-	 * cpus, as clear_bit() does not use barriers.
-	 */
-	smp_mb__before_atomic();
-	clear_bit(NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT, &watchdog_enabled);
-	smp_mb__after_atomic();
-
-	/* skip displaying the same error again */
-	if (cpu > 0 && (PTR_ERR(event) == cpu0_err))
-		return PTR_ERR(event);
-
-	/* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */
-	if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP)
-		pr_info("disabled (cpu%i): not supported (no LAPIC?)\n", cpu);
-	else if (PTR_ERR(event) == -ENOENT)
-		pr_warn("disabled (cpu%i): hardware events not enabled\n",
-			 cpu);
-	else
-		pr_err("disabled (cpu%i): unable to create perf event: %ld\n",
-			cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
-
-	pr_info("Shutting down hard lockup detector on all cpus\n");
-
-	return PTR_ERR(event);
-
-	/* success path */
-out_save:
-	per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu) = event;
-out_enable:
-	perf_event_enable(per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu));
-out:
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
-
-	if (event) {
-		perf_event_disable(event);
-		per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu) = NULL;
-
-		/* should be in cleanup, but blocks oprofile */
-		perf_event_release_kernel(event);
-	}
-	if (cpu == 0) {
-		/* watchdog_nmi_enable() expects this to be zero initially. */
-		cpu0_err = 0;
-	}
-}
-
-#else
-static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) { return 0; }
-static void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu) { return; }
-#endif /* CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR */
-
 static struct smp_hotplug_thread watchdog_threads = {
 	.store			= &softlockup_watchdog,
 	.thread_should_run	= watchdog_should_run,
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+/*
+ * Detect hard lockups on a system
+ *
+ * started by Don Zickus, Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * Note: Most of this code is borrowed heavily from the original softlockup
+ * detector, so thanks to Ingo for the initial implementation.
+ * Some chunks also taken from the old x86-specific nmi watchdog code, thanks
+ * to those contributors as well.
+ */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt
+
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev);
+
+/* boot commands */
+/*
+ * Should we panic when a soft-lockup or hard-lockup occurs:
+ */
+unsigned int __read_mostly hardlockup_panic =
+			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE;
+static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped;
+/*
+ * We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases,
+ * for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these
+ * cases this function can be called to disable hard lockup detection. This
+ * function should only be executed once by the boot processor before the
+ * kernel command line parameters are parsed, because otherwise it is not
+ * possible to override this in hardlockup_panic_setup().
+ */
+void hardlockup_detector_disable(void)
+{
+	watchdog_enabled &= ~NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
+}
+
+static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str)
+{
+	if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5))
+		hardlockup_panic = 1;
+	else if (!strncmp(str, "nopanic", 7))
+		hardlockup_panic = 0;
+	else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1))
+		watchdog_enabled &= ~NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
+	else if (!strncmp(str, "1", 1))
+		watchdog_enabled |= NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup);
+
+void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Using __raw here because some code paths have
+	 * preemption enabled.  If preemption is enabled
+	 * then interrupts should be enabled too, in which
+	 * case we shouldn't have to worry about the watchdog
+	 * going off.
+	 */
+	raw_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, true);
+	touch_softlockup_watchdog();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_nmi_watchdog);
+
+static struct perf_event_attr wd_hw_attr = {
+	.type		= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
+	.config		= PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
+	.size		= sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
+	.pinned		= 1,
+	.disabled	= 1,
+};
+
+/* Callback function for perf event subsystem */
+static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
+		 struct perf_sample_data *data,
+		 struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	/* Ensure the watchdog never gets throttled */
+	event->hw.interrupts = 0;
+
+	if (__this_cpu_read(watchdog_nmi_touch) == true) {
+		__this_cpu_write(watchdog_nmi_touch, false);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* check for a hardlockup
+	 * This is done by making sure our timer interrupt
+	 * is incrementing.  The timer interrupt should have
+	 * fired multiple times before we overflow'd.  If it hasn't
+	 * then this is a good indication the cpu is stuck
+	 */
+	if (is_hardlockup()) {
+		int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+		/* only print hardlockups once */
+		if (__this_cpu_read(hard_watchdog_warn) == true)
+			return;
+
+		pr_emerg("Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu %d", this_cpu);
+		print_modules();
+		print_irqtrace_events(current);
+		if (regs)
+			show_regs(regs);
+		else
+			dump_stack();
+
+		/*
+		 * Perform all-CPU dump only once to avoid multiple hardlockups
+		 * generating interleaving traces
+		 */
+		if (sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace &&
+				!test_and_set_bit(0, &hardlockup_allcpu_dumped))
+			trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
+
+		if (hardlockup_panic)
+			nmi_panic(regs, "Hard LOCKUP");
+
+		__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, false);
+	return;
+}
+
+/*
+ * People like the simple clean cpu node info on boot.
+ * Reduce the watchdog noise by only printing messages
+ * that are different from what cpu0 displayed.
+ */
+static unsigned long cpu0_err;
+
+int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
+	struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
+
+	/* nothing to do if the hard lockup detector is disabled */
+	if (!(watchdog_enabled & NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED))
+		goto out;
+
+	/* is it already setup and enabled? */
+	if (event && event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* it is setup but not enabled */
+	if (event != NULL)
+		goto out_enable;
+
+	wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
+	wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);
+
+	/* Try to register using hardware perf events */
+	event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL);
+
+	/* save cpu0 error for future comparision */
+	if (cpu == 0 && IS_ERR(event))
+		cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event);
+
+	if (!IS_ERR(event)) {
+		/* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */
+		if (cpu == 0 || cpu0_err)
+			pr_info("enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.\n");
+		goto out_save;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Disable the hard lockup detector if _any_ CPU fails to set up
+	 * set up the hardware perf event. The watchdog() function checks
+	 * the NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED bit periodically.
+	 *
+	 * The barriers are for syncing up watchdog_enabled across all the
+	 * cpus, as clear_bit() does not use barriers.
+	 */
+	smp_mb__before_atomic();
+	clear_bit(NMI_WATCHDOG_ENABLED_BIT, &watchdog_enabled);
+	smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
+	/* skip displaying the same error again */
+	if (cpu > 0 && (PTR_ERR(event) == cpu0_err))
+		return PTR_ERR(event);
+
+	/* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */
+	if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+		pr_info("disabled (cpu%i): not supported (no LAPIC?)\n", cpu);
+	else if (PTR_ERR(event) == -ENOENT)
+		pr_warn("disabled (cpu%i): hardware events not enabled\n",
+			 cpu);
+	else
+		pr_err("disabled (cpu%i): unable to create perf event: %ld\n",
+			cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
+
+	pr_info("Shutting down hard lockup detector on all cpus\n");
+
+	return PTR_ERR(event);
+
+	/* success path */
+out_save:
+	per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu) = event;
+out_enable:
+	perf_event_enable(per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu));
+out:
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
+
+	if (event) {
+		perf_event_disable(event);
+		per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu) = NULL;
+
+		/* should be in cleanup, but blocks oprofile */
+		perf_event_release_kernel(event);
+	}
+	if (cpu == 0) {
+		/* watchdog_nmi_enable() expects this to be zero initially. */
+		cpu0_err = 0;
+	}
+}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from babu.moger@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/kernel-watchdog.c-move-shared-definitions-to-nmi.h.patch
queue-4.9/kernel-watchdog.c-move-hardlockup-detector-to-separate-file.patch