Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/function-graph-tracer: prevent from hrtimer interrupt infinite loop

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Which means that it's not some hrtimer problem, but simply the traced 
> > timer tick takes more than 1 millisecond to execute under this 
> > virtualization.
> >
> >        Ingo
> >
> 
> Oh ok I see. Sorry I'm a bit slow today... So the solution would be to 
> adapt dynamically the timeout between hrtimer irq. But I don't know that 
> much hrtimer to implement such a feature...

just if you want this lockup to go away. I think you did the hardest bit 
already: to detect the situation reliably, without false positives. Now 
the 'action' needs to change: instead of 'turning off ftrace' (which is 
brutal - ftrace was just the last drop of water that pushed the system 
over the edge), we can instead do 'double the minimum clockevent delta 
threshold'.

there's already such code in kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c:

                /*
                 * We tried 2 times to program the device with the given
                 * min_delta_ns. If that's not working then we double it
                 * and emit a warning.
                 */
                if (++i > 2) {
                        /* Increase the min. delta and try again */
                        if (!dev->min_delta_ns)
                                dev->min_delta_ns = 5000;
                        else
                                dev->min_delta_ns += dev->min_delta_ns >> 1;

what would be needed is to simply double ->min_delta_ns on every such 
situation you detect? Once you do that, it takes effect on the next tick 
automatically.

Or something like that. In theory. :-)

	Ingo