4 * started by Ingo Molnar, (C) 2005, Red Hat
6 * this code detects soft lockups: incidents in where on a CPU
7 * the kernel does not reschedule for 10 seconds or more.
11 #include <linux/cpu.h>
12 #include <linux/init.h>
13 #include <linux/delay.h>
14 #include <linux/kthread.h>
15 #include <linux/notifier.h>
16 #include <linux/module.h>
18 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(print_lock);
20 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, timestamp) = 0;
21 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, print_timestamp) = 0;
22 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, watchdog_task);
24 static int did_panic = 0;
25 static int softlock_panic(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
33 static struct notifier_block panic_block = {
34 .notifier_call = softlock_panic,
37 void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void)
39 per_cpu(timestamp, raw_smp_processor_id()) = jiffies;
41 EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_softlockup_watchdog);
44 * This callback runs from the timer interrupt, and checks
45 * whether the watchdog thread has hung or not:
47 void softlockup_tick(struct pt_regs *regs)
49 int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
50 unsigned long timestamp = per_cpu(timestamp, this_cpu);
52 if (per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) == timestamp)
55 /* Do not cause a second panic when there already was one */
59 if (time_after(jiffies, timestamp + 10*HZ)) {
60 per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu) = timestamp;
62 spin_lock(&print_lock);
63 printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#%d!\n",
66 spin_unlock(&print_lock);
71 * The watchdog thread - runs every second and touches the timestamp.
73 static int watchdog(void * __bind_cpu)
75 struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 99 };
76 int this_cpu = (long) __bind_cpu;
78 printk("softlockup thread %d started up.\n", this_cpu);
80 sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m);
81 current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
83 set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
86 * Run briefly once per second - if this gets delayed for
87 * more than 10 seconds then the debug-printout triggers
88 * in softlockup_tick():
90 while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
91 msleep_interruptible(1000);
92 touch_softlockup_watchdog();
94 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
100 * Create/destroy watchdog threads as CPUs come and go:
103 cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
105 int hotcpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
106 struct task_struct *p;
110 BUG_ON(per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu));
111 p = kthread_create(watchdog, hcpu, "watchdog/%d", hotcpu);
113 printk("watchdog for %i failed\n", hotcpu);
116 per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu) = p;
117 kthread_bind(p, hotcpu);
121 wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu));
123 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
124 case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
125 /* Unbind so it can run. Fall thru. */
126 kthread_bind(per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu), smp_processor_id());
128 p = per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu);
129 per_cpu(watchdog_task, hotcpu) = NULL;
132 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
137 static struct notifier_block __devinitdata cpu_nfb = {
138 .notifier_call = cpu_callback
141 __init void spawn_softlockup_task(void)
143 void *cpu = (void *)(long)smp_processor_id();
145 cpu_callback(&cpu_nfb, CPU_UP_PREPARE, cpu);
146 cpu_callback(&cpu_nfb, CPU_ONLINE, cpu);
147 register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_nfb);
149 notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block);