Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] kernel/watchdog_hld: clarify the condition in hardlockup_detector_event_create()

[Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 02:32:47PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2021-09-23 22:09:49, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > As for the context, there are two arguments to change
> > debug_smp_processor_id() to is_percpu_thread().
> > 
> >   -1. watchdog_ev is percpu, and migration will frustrate the attempt
> > which try to bind a watchdog_ev to a cpu by protecting this func inside
> > the pair of preempt_disable()/preempt_enable().
> > 
> >   -2. hardlockup_detector_event_create() indirectly calls
> > kmem_cache_alloc_node(), which is blockable.
> > 
> > So here, spelling out the really planned context "is_percpu_thread()".
> 
> The description is pretty hard to understand. I would suggest
> something like:
> 
> Subject: kernel/watchdog_hld: Ensure CPU-bound context when creating
> hardlockup detector event
> 
> hardlockup_detector_event_create() should create perf_event on the
> current CPU. Preemption could not get disabled because
> perf_event_create_kernel_counter() allocates memory. Instead,
> the CPU locality is achieved by processing the code in a per-CPU
> bound kthread.
> 
> Add a check to prevent mistakes when calling the code in another
> code path.
> 
Appreciate for that. I will use it.

> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
> > Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
> > index 247bf0b1582c..df010df76576 100644
> > --- a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
> > +++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
> > @@ -165,10 +165,13 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
> >  
> >  static int hardlockup_detector_event_create(void)
> >  {
> > -	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > +	unsigned int cpu;
> >  	struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
> >  	struct perf_event *evt;
> >  
> > +	/* This function plans to execute in cpu bound kthread */
> 
> This does not explain why it is needed. I suggest something like:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Preemption is not disabled because memory will be allocated.
> 	 * Ensure CPU-locality by calling this in per-CPU kthread.
> 	 */
> 
It sounds good. I will use it.

> 
> > +	WARN_ON(!is_percpu_thread());
> > +	cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> >  	wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
> >  	wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);
> >  
> 
> Othrewise the change looks good to me.
> 
Thank for your help.

Regards,

	Pingfan
> 
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