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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2022-02-23 17:29:37 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2022-04-11 17:28:48 -0700
commitc708b08c65a0dfae127b9ee33b0fb73535a5e066 (patch)
tree3dc0ab8b7a448ab78d1c27fb11933e757e6dbc56 /kernel/rcu/tree.c
parentrcu: Fix rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() strict QS reporting (diff)
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rcu: Check for jiffies going backwards
A report of a 12-jiffy normal RCU CPU stall warning raises interesting questions about the nature of time on the offending system. This commit instruments rcu_sched_clock_irq(), which is RCU's hook into the scheduling-clock interrupt, checking for the jiffies counter going backwards. Reported-by: Saravanan D <sarvanand@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index a4b8189455d5..a5ea67454640 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1679,6 +1679,8 @@ static bool __note_gp_changes(struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
rdp->gp_seq = rnp->gp_seq; /* Remember new grace-period state. */
if (ULONG_CMP_LT(rdp->gp_seq_needed, rnp->gp_seq_needed) || rdp->gpwrap)
WRITE_ONCE(rdp->gp_seq_needed, rnp->gp_seq_needed);
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU) && READ_ONCE(rdp->gpwrap))
+ WRITE_ONCE(rdp->last_sched_clock, jiffies);
WRITE_ONCE(rdp->gpwrap, false);
rcu_gpnum_ovf(rnp, rdp);
return ret;
@@ -2609,6 +2611,13 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_data *rdp)
*/
void rcu_sched_clock_irq(int user)
{
+ unsigned long j;
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU)) {
+ j = jiffies;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(time_before(j, __this_cpu_read(rcu_data.last_sched_clock)));
+ __this_cpu_write(rcu_data.last_sched_clock, j);
+ }
trace_rcu_utilization(TPS("Start scheduler-tick"));
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
raw_cpu_inc(rcu_data.ticks_this_gp);
@@ -4179,6 +4188,7 @@ rcu_boot_init_percpu_data(int cpu)
rdp->rcu_ofl_gp_flags = RCU_GP_CLEANED;
rdp->rcu_onl_gp_seq = rcu_state.gp_seq;
rdp->rcu_onl_gp_flags = RCU_GP_CLEANED;
+ rdp->last_sched_clock = jiffies;
rdp->cpu = cpu;
rcu_boot_init_nocb_percpu_data(rdp);
}