From: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit a1ff03cd6fb9c501fff63a4a2bface9adcfa81cd ]
tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall
On some rare cases, the timekeeper CPU may be delaying its jiffies update duty for a while. Known causes include:
* The timekeeper is waiting on stop_machine in a MULTI_STOP_DISABLE_IRQ or MULTI_STOP_RUN state. Disabled interrupts prevent from timekeeping updates while waiting for the target CPU to complete its stop_machine() callback.
* The timekeeper vcpu has VMEXIT'ed for a long while due to some overload on the host.
Detect and fix these situations with emergency timekeeping catchups.
Original-patch-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ static ktime_t tick_init_jiffy_update(vo return period; }
+#define MAX_STALLED_JIFFIES 5 + static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); @@ -207,6 +209,21 @@ static void tick_sched_do_timer(struct t if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu) tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
+ /* + * If jiffies update stalled for too long (timekeeper in stop_machine() + * or VMEXIT'ed for several msecs), force an update. + */ + if (ts->last_tick_jiffies != jiffies) { + ts->stalled_jiffies = 0; + ts->last_tick_jiffies = READ_ONCE(jiffies); + } else { + if (++ts->stalled_jiffies == MAX_STALLED_JIFFIES) { + tick_do_update_jiffies64(now); + ts->stalled_jiffies = 0; + ts->last_tick_jiffies = READ_ONCE(jiffies); + } + } + if (ts->inidle) ts->got_idle_tick = 1; } --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ enum tick_nohz_mode { * @timer_expires_base: Base time clock monotonic for @timer_expires * @next_timer: Expiry time of next expiring timer for debugging purpose only * @tick_dep_mask: Tick dependency mask - is set, if someone needs the tick + * @last_tick_jiffies: Value of jiffies seen on last tick + * @stalled_jiffies: Number of stalled jiffies detected across ticks */ struct tick_sched { struct hrtimer sched_timer; @@ -77,6 +79,8 @@ struct tick_sched { u64 next_timer; ktime_t idle_expires; atomic_t tick_dep_mask; + unsigned long last_tick_jiffies; + unsigned int stalled_jiffies; };
extern struct tick_sched *tick_get_tick_sched(int cpu);