From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 upstream. The stop machine logic can lock up if all but one of the migration threads make it through the disable-irq step and the one remaining thread gets stuck in __do_softirq. The reason __do_softirq can hang is that it has a bail-out based on jiffies timeout, but in the lockup case, jiffies itself is not incremented. To work around this, re-add the max_restart counter in __do_irq and stop processing irqs after 10 restarts. Thanks to Tejun Heo and Rusty Russell and others for helping me track this down. This was introduced in 3.9 by commit c10d73671ad3 ("softirq: reduce latencies"). It may be worth looking into ath9k to see if it has issues with its irq handler at a later date. The hang stack traces look something like this: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/watchdog.c:245 watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7() Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2 Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc] Pid: 23, comm: migration/2 Tainted: G C 3.9.4+ #11 Call Trace: <NMI> warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9f warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48 watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7 __perf_event_overflow+0x137/0x1cb perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x16 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x2dc/0x359 perf_event_nmi_handler+0x19/0x1b nmi_handle+0x7f/0xc2 do_nmi+0xbc/0x304 end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e <<EOE>> cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162 smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260 kthread+0xc7/0xcf ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 ---[ end trace 4947dfa9b0a4cec3 ]--- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [migration/1:17] Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc] irq event stamp: 835637905 hardirqs last enabled at (835637904): __do_softirq+0x9f/0x257 hardirqs last disabled at (835637905): apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 softirqs last enabled at (5654720): __do_softirq+0x1ff/0x257 softirqs last disabled at (5654725): irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb CPU 1 Pid: 17, comm: migration/1 Tainted: G WC 3.9.4+ #11 To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M. RIP: tasklet_hi_action+0xf0/0xf0 Process migration/1 Call Trace: <IRQ> __do_softirq+0x117/0x257 irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0x98 apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x80 <EOI> printk+0x4d/0x4f stop_machine_cpu_stop+0x22c/0x274 cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162 smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260 kthread+0xc7/0xcf ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@xxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [xr: Backported to 3.4: Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/softirq.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index db3df13..5cc401e 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -194,8 +194,12 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip) EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); /* - * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms, - * and if need_resched() is not set. + * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times, + * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms. + * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in + * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to + * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as + * well to make sure we eventually return from this method. * * These limits have been established via experimentation. * The two things to balance is latency against fairness - @@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); * should not be able to lock up the box. */ #define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME msecs_to_jiffies(2) +#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10 asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) { @@ -210,6 +215,7 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) __u32 pending; unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME; int cpu; + int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART; pending = local_softirq_pending(); account_system_vtime(current); @@ -256,7 +262,8 @@ restart: pending = local_softirq_pending(); if (pending) { - if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched()) + if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() && + --max_restart) goto restart; wakeup_softirqd(); -- 1.8.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html