[PATCH 6/6] nohz: add dataplane_debug boot flag

Chris Metcalf
2015-05-08T17:59:27Z

This flag simplifies debugging of NO_HZ_FULL kernels when processes
are running in PR_DATAPLANE_QUIESCE mode. Such processes should
get no interrupts from the kernel, and if they do, when this boot
flag is specified a kernel stack dump on the console is generated.

It's possible to use ftrace to simply detect whether a dataplane core
has unexpectedly entered the kernel. But what this boot flag does
is allow the kernel to provide better diagnostics, e.g. by reporting
in the IPI-generating code what remote core and context is preparing
to deliver an interrupt to a dataplane core.

It may be worth considering other ways to generate useful debugging
output rather than console spew, but for now that is simple and direct.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++
arch/tile/mm/homecache.c | 5 ++++-
include/linux/tick.h | 2 ++
kernel/irq_work.c | 4 +++-
kernel/sched/core.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
kernel/signal.c | 5 +++++
kernel/smp.c | 4 ++++
kernel/softirq.c | 1 +
8 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f6befa9855c1..5c5af5258e17 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -794,6 +794,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
dasd= [HW,NET]
See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.

+ dataplane_debug [KNL]
+ In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booted
+ in nohz_full= mode, this setting will generate console
+ backtraces when the kernel is about to interrupt a
+ task that has requested PR_DATAPLANE_QUIESCE.
+
db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
(one device per port)
Format: <port#>,<type>
diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c b/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
index 40ca30a9fee3..dd5ec7eca9a8 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>

#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -83,8 +84,10 @@ static void hv_flush_update(const struct cpumask *cache_cpumask,
* Don't bother to update atomically; losing a count
* here is not that critical.
*/
- for_each_cpu(cpu, &mask)
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, &mask) {
++per_cpu(irq_stat, cpu).irq_hv_flush_count;
+ tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(cpu);
+ }
}

/*
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index d191cda9b71a..4610cdf0f972 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu(int cpu);
extern void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void);
extern void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern void tick_nohz_dataplane_enter(void);
+extern void tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(int cpu);
#else
static inline bool tick_nohz_full_enabled(void) { return false; }
static inline bool tick_nohz_full_cpu(int cpu) { return false; }
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_full_kick_all(void) { }
static inline void __tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
static inline bool tick_nohz_is_dataplane(void) { return false; }
static inline void tick_nohz_dataplane_enter(void) { }
+static inline void tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(int cpu) { }
#endif

static inline bool is_housekeeping_cpu(int cpu)
diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
index cbf9fb899d92..0adc53c4e899 100644
--- a/kernel/irq_work.c
+++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ bool irq_work_queue_on(struct irq_work *work, int cpu)
if (!irq_work_claim(work))
return false;

- if (llist_add(&work->llnode, &per_cpu(raised_list, cpu)))
+ if (llist_add(&work->llnode, &per_cpu(raised_list, cpu))) {
+ tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(cpu);
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi(cpu);
+ }

return true;
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f9123a82cbb6..202fab0c41cb 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -719,6 +719,24 @@ bool sched_can_stop_tick(void)

return true;
}
+
+/* Enable debugging of any interrupts of dataplane cores. */
+static int dataplane_debug;
+static int __init dataplane_debug_func(char *str)
+{
+ dataplane_debug = true;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("dataplane_debug", dataplane_debug_func);
+
+void tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(int cpu)
+{
+ if (dataplane_debug && tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu) &&
+ (cpu_curr(cpu)->dataplane_flags & PR_DATAPLANE_QUIESCE)) {
+ pr_err("Interrupt detected for dataplane cpu %d\n", cpu);
+ dump_stack();
+ }
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */

void sched_avg_update(struct rq *rq)
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index d51c5ddd855c..ebc552cafff5 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -689,6 +689,11 @@ int dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
*/
void signal_wake_up_state(struct task_struct *t, unsigned int state)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+ /* If the task is being killed, don't complain about dataplane. */
+ if (state & TASK_WAKEKILL)
+ t->dataplane_flags = 0;
+#endif
set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);
/*
* TASK_WAKEKILL also means wake it up in the stopped/traced/killable
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 07854477c164..9518fc80321b 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>

#include "smpboot.h"

@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ static int generic_exec_single(int cpu, struct call_single_data *csd,
* locking and barrier primitives. Generic code isn't really
* equipped to do the right thing...
*/
+ tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(cpu);
if (llist_add(&csd->llist, &per_cpu(call_single_queue, cpu)))
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi(cpu);

@@ -457,6 +459,8 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct cpumask *mask,
}

/* Send a message to all CPUs in the map */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, cfd->cpumask)
+ tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(cpu);
arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(cfd->cpumask);

if (wait) {
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index bc9406337f82..eeacabf08ca6 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ void irq_exit(void)
WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
#endif

+ tick_nohz_dataplane_debug(smp_processor_id());
account_irq_exit_time(current);
preempt_count_sub(HARDIRQ_OFFSET);
if (!in_interrupt() && local_softirq_pending())
--
2.1.2