From 6ccd2ecd422644277b7d8b37222e3af3f43ea9ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:20:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current grace period. However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced. Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made meaningful progress. (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs jiffies.) Reported-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Miroslav Benes --- Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 5 +++++ kernel/rcu/tree.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- kernel/rcu/tree.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index ed186a902d31..55f9707fe60a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ o For !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the behavior, you might need to replace some of the cond_resched() calls with calls to cond_resched_rcu_qs(). +o Anything that prevents RCU's grace-period kthreads from running. + This can result in the "All QSes seen" console-log message. + This message will include information on when the kthread last + ran and how often it should be expected to run. + o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, which might happen to preempt a low-priority task in the middle of an RCU read-side critical section. This is especially damaging if diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 654b15be1e36..a2ceb66bcd67 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1066,11 +1066,13 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp) } } -static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) +static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum) { int cpu; long delta; unsigned long flags; + unsigned long gpa; + unsigned long j; int ndetected = 0; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); long totqlen = 0; @@ -1123,10 +1125,22 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) pr_cont("(detected by %d, t=%ld jiffies, g=%ld, c=%ld, q=%lu)\n", smp_processor_id(), (long)(jiffies - rsp->gp_start), (long)rsp->gpnum, (long)rsp->completed, totqlen); - if (ndetected == 0) - pr_err("INFO: Stall ended before state dump start\n"); - else + if (ndetected) { rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(rsp); + } else { + if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum) != gpnum || + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->completed) == gpnum) { + pr_err("INFO: Stall ended before state dump start\n"); + } else { + j = jiffies; + gpa = ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity); + pr_err("All QSes seen, last %s kthread activity %ld (%ld-%ld), jiffies_till_next_fqs=%ld\n", + rsp->name, j - gpa, j, gpa, + jiffies_till_next_fqs); + /* In this case, the current CPU might be at fault. */ + sched_show_task(current); + } + } /* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */ @@ -1226,7 +1240,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js + RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY)) { /* They had a few time units to dump stack, so complain. */ - print_other_cpu_stall(rsp); + print_other_cpu_stall(rsp, gpnum); } } @@ -1622,6 +1636,7 @@ static int rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp) struct rcu_data *rdp; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; rcu_bind_gp_kthread(); raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock); smp_mb__after_unlock_lock(); @@ -1682,6 +1697,7 @@ static int rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp) rnp->grphi, rnp->qsmask); raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock); cond_resched_rcu_qs(); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; } mutex_unlock(&rsp->onoff_mutex); @@ -1698,6 +1714,7 @@ static int rcu_gp_fqs(struct rcu_state *rsp, int fqs_state_in) unsigned long maxj; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; rsp->n_force_qs++; if (fqs_state == RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK) { /* Collect dyntick-idle snapshots. */ @@ -1736,6 +1753,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_cleanup(struct rcu_state *rsp) struct rcu_data *rdp; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock); smp_mb__after_unlock_lock(); gp_duration = jiffies - rsp->gp_start; @@ -1772,6 +1790,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_cleanup(struct rcu_state *rsp) nocb += rcu_future_gp_cleanup(rsp, rnp); raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock); cond_resched_rcu_qs(); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; } rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock); @@ -1821,6 +1840,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg) if (rcu_gp_init(rsp)) break; cond_resched_rcu_qs(); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; WARN_ON(signal_pending(current)); trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name, ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum), @@ -1864,9 +1884,11 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg) ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum), TPS("fqsend")); cond_resched_rcu_qs(); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; } else { /* Deal with stray signal. */ cond_resched_rcu_qs(); + ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies; WARN_ON(signal_pending(current)); trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name, ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum), diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h index e300848cc0cf..5ec81cf938fd 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h @@ -488,6 +488,8 @@ struct rcu_state { /* due to no GP active. */ unsigned long gp_start; /* Time at which GP started, */ /* but in jiffies. */ + unsigned long gp_activity; /* Time of last GP kthread */ + /* activity in jiffies. */ unsigned long jiffies_stall; /* Time at which to check */ /* for CPU stalls. */ unsigned long jiffies_resched; /* Time at which to resched */ -- 2.39.5