powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support

The hard lockup detector uses a PMU event as a periodic NMI to
detect if we are stuck (where stuck means no timer interrupts have
occurred).

Ben's rework of the ppc64 soft disable code has made ppc64 PMU
exceptions a partial NMI. They can get disabled if an external
interrupt comes in, but otherwise PMU interrupts will fire in
interrupt disabled regions.

We disable the hard lockup detector by default for a few reasons:

- It breaks userspace event based branches on POWER8.
- It is likely to produce false positives on KVM guests.
- Since PMCs can only count to 2^31, counting cycles means we might
  take multiple PMU exceptions per second per hardware thread even
  if our hard lockup timeout is 10 seconds.

It can be enabled via a boot option, or via procfs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index c102668..716c9e6 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ config PPC
        select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
        select NO_BOOTMEM
        select HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
+       select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI if PPC64
 
 config GENERIC_CSUM
        def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nmi.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nmi.h
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ff1ccb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nmi.h
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_NMI_H
+#define _ASM_NMI_H
+
+#endif /* _ASM_NMI_H */

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 49f553b..7551e56 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/memory.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/kdump.h>
@@ -779,3 +780,22 @@ unsigned long memory_block_size_bytes(void)
 struct ppc_pci_io ppc_pci_io;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_pci_io);
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
+u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh)
+{
+       return ppc_proc_freq * watchdog_thresh;
+}
+
+/*
+ * The hardlockup detector breaks PMU event based branches and is likely
+ * to get false positives in KVM guests, so disable it by default.
+ */
+static int __init disable_hardlockup_detector(void)
+{
+       watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(false);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(disable_hardlockup_detector);
+#endif