linux/kernel/time
Tom Hromatka 0107042768 sysrq: Reset the watchdog timers while displaying high-resolution timers
On systems with a large number of CPUs, running sysrq-<q> can cause
watchdog timeouts.  There are two slow sections of code in the sysrq-<q>
path in timer_list.c.

1. print_active_timers() - This function is called by print_cpu() and
   contains a slow goto loop.  On a machine with hundreds of CPUs, this
   loop took approximately 100ms for the first CPU in a NUMA node.
   (Subsequent CPUs in the same node ran much quicker.)  The total time
   to print all of the CPUs is ultimately long enough to trigger the
   soft lockup watchdog.

2. print_tickdevice() - This function outputs a large amount of textual
   information.  This function also took approximately 100ms per CPU.

Since sysrq-<q> is not a performance critical path, there should be no
harm in touching the nmi watchdog in both slow sections above.  Touching
it in just one location was insufficient on systems with hundreds of
CPUs as occasional timeouts were still observed during testing.

This issue was observed on an Oracle T7 machine with 128 CPUs, but I
anticipate it may affect other systems with similarly large numbers of
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2017-03-23 12:46:53 -07:00
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alarmtimer.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Make clockevents_config() static 2017-03-23 12:14:05 -07:00
clocksource.c sched/clock, clocksource: Add optional cs::mark_unstable() method 2017-01-14 11:29:43 +01:00
hrtimer.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
itimer.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
jiffies.c jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC 2017-03-07 11:03:28 +01:00
Kconfig rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL 2015-07-06 13:52:18 -07:00
Makefile time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS 2017-02-10 11:15:08 +01:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Fix second_overflow's input parameter type to be 64bits 2015-12-16 16:50:56 -08:00
ntp.c ktime: Get rid of the union 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
posix-clock.c posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path 2015-12-29 11:33:06 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
posix-stubs.c posix-timers: Make them configurable 2016-11-16 09:26:35 +01:00
posix-timers.c sched/headers: Prepare to move exit_files() and exit_itimers() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:40 +01:00
sched_clock.c timers, sched_clock: Update timeout for clock wrap 2017-03-23 12:30:27 -07:00
test_udelay.c time: Avoid timespec in udelay_test 2016-06-20 12:47:26 -07:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c ktime: Get rid of the union 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
tick-broadcast.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 10:06:32 -08:00
tick-common.c ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
tick-internal.h timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible 2016-07-07 10:35:11 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c ktime: Get rid of the union 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
tick-sched.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nohz.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
tick-sched.h Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers" 2017-02-16 12:19:18 -08:00
time.c time: Introduce jiffies64_to_nsecs() 2017-02-01 09:13:45 +01:00
timeconst.bc time: Introduce jiffies64_to_nsecs() 2017-02-01 09:13:45 +01:00
timeconv.c time: Add time64_to_tm() 2016-06-20 12:47:15 -07:00
timecounter.c clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t 2016-12-25 11:04:12 +01:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping: Use deferred printk() in debug code 2017-02-15 11:46:08 +01:00
timekeeping_internal.h clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t 2016-12-25 11:04:12 +01:00
timekeeping.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nmi.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:30 +01:00
timekeeping.h timekeeping: Remove unused timekeeping_{get,set}_tai_offset() 2017-01-06 16:47:28 -08:00
timer_list.c sysrq: Reset the watchdog timers while displaying high-resolution timers 2017-03-23 12:46:53 -07:00
timer.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00