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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:11:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171031221107.GA12133@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710312145190.1942@nanos>

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:32:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

[ ...] 

> So we have to revert
> 
> a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")
> 
> Patch attached.
> 

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

There is still a problem. When running

echo 6 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh

repeatedly, the message

NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.

stops after a while (after ~10-30 iterations, with fluctuations).
After adding trace messages into hardlockup_detector_perf_disable()
and hardlockup_detector_perf_enable(), I see:

hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(0): Number of CPUs: 3
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(1): Number of CPUs: 2
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(2): Number of CPUs: 1
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(3): Number of CPUs: 0
...
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(0): Number of CPUs: 2
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(1): Number of CPUs: 1
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(2): Number of CPUs: 0
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(3): Number of CPUs: -1
...
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(1): Number of CPUs: -6
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(3): Number of CPUs: -5
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(2): Number of CPUs: -4
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(0): Number of CPUs: -3

Maybe watchdog_cpus needs to be atomic ?

Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-31 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-30 22:45 Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested Guenter Roeck
2017-10-31 13:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-31 17:16   ` Guenter Roeck
2017-10-31 18:50     ` Don Zickus
2017-10-31 20:12       ` Guenter Roeck
2017-10-31 20:23         ` Don Zickus
2017-10-31 21:32   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-31 22:11     ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2017-11-01 18:11       ` Don Zickus
2017-11-01 18:34         ` Guenter Roeck
2017-11-01 19:46         ` [tip:core/urgent] watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Use atomics to track in-use cpu counter tip-bot for Don Zickus
2017-11-01 20:28         ` tip-bot for Don Zickus
2017-11-01 18:22       ` Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-01  8:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-01  8:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-01 19:46     ` [tip:core/urgent] watchdog/harclockup/perf: Revert a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy") tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-01 20:32       ` Guenter Roeck
2017-11-01 20:52         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-01 20:27     ` tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-31 18:48 ` Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested Don Zickus

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