[PATCH RFC smp] Provide boot-time timeout for CSD lock diagnostics

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 01 2022 - 14:34:50 EST


Debugging of problems involving insanely long-running SMI handlers
proceeds better if the CSD-lock timeout can be adjusted. This commit
therefore provides a new smp.csd_lock_timeout kernel boot parameter
that specifies the timeout in milliseconds. The default remains at the
previously hard-coded value of five seconds.

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2ac18d36805cf..6e38727af2552 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -5333,6 +5333,17 @@
smart2= [HW]
Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]

+ smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
+ Specify the period of time in milliseconds
+ that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
+ for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
+ useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
+ disabling interrupts for extended periods
+ of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
+ setting a value of zero disables this feature.
+ This feature may be more efficiently disabled
+ using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
+
smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 01a7c1706a58b..d82439bac4016 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -183,7 +183,9 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(smp_call_func_t, cur_csd_func);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(void *, cur_csd_info);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cfd_seq_local, cfd_seq_local);

-#define CSD_LOCK_TIMEOUT (5ULL * NSEC_PER_SEC)
+static ulong csd_lock_timeout = 5000; /* CSD lock timeout in milliseconds. */
+module_param(csd_lock_timeout, ulong, 0444);
+
static atomic_t csd_bug_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static u64 cfd_seq;

@@ -329,6 +331,7 @@ static bool csd_lock_wait_toolong(struct __call_single_data *csd, u64 ts0, u64 *
u64 ts2, ts_delta;
call_single_data_t *cpu_cur_csd;
unsigned int flags = READ_ONCE(csd->node.u_flags);
+ unsigned long long csd_lock_timeout_ns = csd_lock_timeout * NSEC_PER_MSEC;

if (!(flags & CSD_FLAG_LOCK)) {
if (!unlikely(*bug_id))
@@ -341,7 +344,7 @@ static bool csd_lock_wait_toolong(struct __call_single_data *csd, u64 ts0, u64 *

ts2 = sched_clock();
ts_delta = ts2 - *ts1;
- if (likely(ts_delta <= CSD_LOCK_TIMEOUT))
+ if (likely(ts_delta <= csd_lock_timeout_ns || csd_lock_timeout_ns <= 0))
return false;

firsttime = !*bug_id;