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Commit 2104180a authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog



Implement an arch-speicfic watchdog rather than use the perf-based
hardlockup detector.

The new watchdog takes the soft-NMI directly, rather than going through
perf.  Perf interrupts are to be made maskable in future, so that would
prevent the perf detector from working in those regions.

Additionally, implement a SMP based detector where all CPUs watch one
another by pinging a shared cpumask.  This is because powerpc Book3S
does not have a true periodic local NMI, but some platforms do implement
a true NMI IPI.

If a CPU is stuck with interrupts hard disabled, the soft-NMI watchdog
does not work, but the SMP watchdog will.  Even on platforms without a
true NMI IPI to get a good trace from the stuck CPU, other CPUs will
notice the lockup sufficiently to report it and panic.

[npiggin@gmail.com: honor watchdog disable at boot/hotplug]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170621001346.5bb337c9@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com
[npiggin@gmail.com: fix false positive warning at CPU unplug]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630080740.20766-1-npiggin@gmail.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170616065715.18390-6-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>	[sparc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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