[PATCH 3.4 148/172] Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck in __do_softirq.

lizf
2015-06-16T09:02:28Z

From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

3.4.108-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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:
<NMI> 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
<<EOE>>
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:
<IRQ>
__do_softirq+0x117/0x257
irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0x98
apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x80
<EOI>
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 <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@iki.fi>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[xr: Backported to 3.4: Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
kernel/softirq.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index db3df13..5cc401e 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -194,8 +194,12 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);

/*
- * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms,
- * and if need_resched() is not set.
+ * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times,
+ * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms.
+ * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in
+ * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to
+ * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as
+ * well to make sure we eventually return from this method.
*
* These limits have been established via experimentation.
* The two things to balance is latency against fairness -
@@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
* should not be able to lock up the box.
*/
#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME msecs_to_jiffies(2)
+#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10

asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
{
@@ -210,6 +215,7 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
__u32 pending;
unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME;
int cpu;
+ int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;

pending = local_softirq_pending();
account_system_vtime(current);
@@ -256,7 +262,8 @@ restart:

pending = local_softirq_pending();
if (pending) {
- if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched())
+ if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() &&
+ --max_restart)
goto restart;

wakeup_softirqd();
--
1.9.1