Re: [nohz] 2a16fc93d2c: kernel lockup on idle injection

[Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 12/15/2014 03:02 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 15 December 2014 at 12:55, Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Viresh,
>>
>> Let me explain why I think this is happening.
>>
>> 1. tick_nohz_irq_enter/exit() both get called *only if the cpu is idle*
>> and receives an interrupt.
> 
> Bang on target. Yeah that's the part we missed while writing this patch :)
> 
>> 2. Commit 2a16fc93d2c9568e1, cancels programming of tick_sched timer
>> in its handler, assuming that tick_nohz_irq_exit() will take care of
>> programming the clock event device appropriately, and hence it would
>> requeue or cancel the tick_sched timer.
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> 3. But the intel_powerclamp driver injects an idle period only.
>> *The CPU however is not idle*. It has work on its runqueue and the
>> rq->curr != idle. This means that *tick_nohz_irq_enter()/exit() will not
>> get called on any interrupt*.
> 
> Still good..
> 
>> 4. As a consequence, when we get a hrtimer interrupt during the period
>> that the powerclamp driver is mimicking idle, the exit path of the
>> interrupt never calls tick_nohz_irq_exit(). Hence the tick_sched timer
>> that would have got removed due to the above commit will not get
>> enqueued back on for any pending timers that there might be. Besides
>> this, *jiffies never gets updated*.
> 
> Jiffies can be updated by any CPU and there is something called a control
> cpu with powerclamp driver. BUT we may have got interrupted before the
> powerclamp timer expired and so we are stuck in the
> 
> while (time_before(jiffies, target_jiffies))
> 
> loop for ever.
> 
>> Hope the above explanation makes sense.
> 
> Mostly good. Thanks for helping out.
> 
> Now, what's the right solution going forward ?
> 
> - Revert the offending commit ..
> - Or still try to avoid reprogramming if we can ..
> 
> This is what I could come up with to still avoid reprogramming of tick:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index cc0a5b6f741b..49f4278f69e2 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart
> tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>                 tick_sched_handle(ts, regs);
> 
>         /* No need to reprogram if we are in idle or full dynticks mode */
> -       if (unlikely(ts->tick_stopped))
> +       if (unlikely(ts->tick_stopped && (is_idle_task(current) ||
> !ts->inidle)))
>                 return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
> 
>         hrtimer_forward(timer, now, tick_period);
> 
> 

Looks good to me. You can add my Reviewed-by to the above patch.

> 
> Above change checks why we have stopped tick..
> - The cpu has gone idle (really): is_idle_task(current)
> - The cpu isn't in idle mode, i.e. its in nohz-full mode: !ts->inidle
> 
> This fixed the issues with powerclamp in my case.
> 
> @Fengguang: Can you please check if this fixes it for you as well?
> 
> @Thomas: Please let me know if you want me to send this fix
> or you want to revert the original commit itself.

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Viresh
>