Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] misc: Add a mechanism to detect stalls on guest vCPUs

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 09:27:39AM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> > This driver creates per-cpu hrtimers which are required to do the
> > periodic 'pet' operation. On a conventional watchdog-core driver, the
> > userspace is responsible for delivering the 'pet' events by writing to
> > the particular /dev/watchdogN node. In this case we require a strong
> > thread affinity to be able to account for lost time on a per vCPU.
> > 
> > This part of the driver is the 'frontend' which is reponsible for
> > delivering the periodic 'pet' events, configuring the virtual peripheral
> > and listening for cpu hotplug events. The other part of the driver
> > handles the peripheral emulation and this part accounts for lost time by
> > looking at the /proc/{}/task/{}/stat entries and is located here:
> > https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3548817
> > 
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Hi,

> The robot reported stalls on vcpus?
> 
> I think you need to fix this up...

The robot reported some issues on v5 and after fixing them it
recommended to add this tag.

> 
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Seb



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