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Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector

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Tejun,

> Sure, separating the knobs out isn't difficult.  I still don't like
> the idea of having multiple set of similar knobs controlling about the
> same thing tho.
>
> For example, let's say there's a user who boots with "nosoftlockup"
> explicitly.  I'm pretty sure the user wouldn't be intending to keep
> workqueue watchdog running.  The same goes for threshold adjustments,
> so here's my question.  What are the reasons for the concern?  What
> are we worrying about?

I'm not sure if it is obvious to a user that a stall of workqueues is
"about the same thing" as a soft lockup, and that one could thus argue
that both should be controlled by the same knob. Looking at this from
perspective of usability, I would still vote for having separate knobs
for each lockup detector. For example

  /proc/sys/kernel/wq_watchdog_thresh

could control the on|off state of the workqueue watchdog and the timeout
at the same time (0 means off, > 0 means on and specifies the timeout).
Separating wq_watchdog_thresh from watchdog_thresh might also be useful
for diagnostic purposes for example, if during the investigation of a
problem one would want to explicitly increase or lower one threshold
without impacting the other.


>> And another question that comes to my mind is: Would the workqueue watchdog
>> participate in the lockup detector suspend/resume mechanism, and if yes, how
>> would it be integrated into this ?
>
> From the usage, I can't quite tell what the purpose of the mechanism
> is.  The only user seems to be fixup_ht_bug() and when it fails it
> says "failed to disable PMU erratum BJ122, BV98, HSD29 workaround" so
> if you could give me a pointer, it'd be great.  But at any rate, if
> shutting down watchdog is all that's necessary, it shouldn't be a
> problem to integrate.

The patch post that introduced the mechanism is here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143843318208917&w=2

The watchdog_{suspend|resume} functions were later renamed:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143894132129982&w=2

At the moment I don't see a reason why the workqueue watchdog would have to
participate in that mechanism. However, if the workqueue watchdog would be
connected to the soft lockup detector as you proposed, I think it should be
participating for the 'sake of consistency' (it would seem hard to under-
stand if the interface would only suspend parts of the lockup detector).


Regards,

Uli
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[PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 01:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 01:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 15:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2015-12-03 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 20:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> - 2015-12-03 21:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 22:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-12-04 09:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2015-12-04 18:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> - 2015-12-04 14:30 +0100
    [PATCH v2 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-07 20:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-07 22:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2015-12-08 17:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-08 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] workqueue: implement lockup detector Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2015-12-07 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 10:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 11:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 15:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 16:10 +0100
          [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 20:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 21:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 22:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 22:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-03 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-04 14:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush  !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-12-07 17:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 16:10 +0100

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