A common problem with kdump is that during the boot up of the
second kernel, the hardware watchdog times out and reboots the
machine before a vmcore can be captured.
Instead of tellling customers to disable their hardware watchdog
timers, I hacked up a hook to put in the kdump path that provides
one last kick before jumping into the second kernel.
The assumption is the watchdog timeout is at least 10-30 seconds
long, enough to get the second kernel to userspace to kick the watchdog
again, if needed.
Of course kdump is usually executed on a panic path, so grabbing the
watchdog mutexes to communicate with the hardware won't work. For now,
I use trylock, otherwise fail.
I have tested this with a machine using iTCO_wdt and the 'watchdog' app.
The extra kicked happened as expected.
v2: based on feedback, implemented a linked list of watchdog references.
added trylock in watchdog_ping and used that function for kicking.
renamed export function to be more generic.
v3: small cleanups, remove mutex_safe variable from EXPORT_SYMBOL
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com>
---
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/watchdog.h | 9 +++++
kernel/kexec.c | 6 +++
3 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 08b48bb..52cb465 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ static dev_t watchdog_devt;
/* the watchdog device behind /dev/watchdog */
static struct watchdog_device *old_wdd;
+/* link list of all watchdog devices */
+struct watchdog_list {
+ spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head head;
+};
+static struct watchdog_list wdlist = {
+ .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(wdlist.lock),
+ .head = LIST_HEAD_INIT(wdlist.head),
+};
+
/*
* watchdog_ping: ping the watchdog.
* @wddev: the watchdog device to ping
@@ -59,11 +69,18 @@ static struct watchdog_device *old_wdd;
* We only ping when the watchdog device is running.
*/
-static int watchdog_ping(struct watchdog_device *wddev)
+static int watchdog_ping(struct watchdog_device *wddev, bool mutex_safe)
{
int err = 0;
- mutex_lock(&wddev->lock);
+ if (mutex_safe) {
+ mutex_lock(&wddev->lock);
+ } else {
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&wddev->lock)) {
+ pr_warn("watchdog%d: Unable to lock mutex\n",
wddev->id);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+ }
if (test_bit(WDOG_UNREGISTERED, &wddev->status)) {
err = -ENODEV;
@@ -83,6 +100,38 @@ out_ping:
return err;
}
+/**
+ * watchdog_kick_all: kick all the watchdogs
+ *
+ * There are times when the kernel needs to kick all the
+ * watchdogs at once without the use of references. For
+ * example in the kdump path, when the kernel is about
+ * to jump into the second kernel.
+ *
+ * The 'false' variable is for contextes that can not
+ * sleep, therefore try to kick the watchdog with trylock
+ * instead.
+ *
+ * Walk the link list locklessly using RCU to handle various
+ * contexts this could be called in. Should support irq and
+ * NMI contexts correctly.
+ */
+
+void watchdog_kick_all(void)
+{
+ struct watchdog_device *wddev;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(wddev, &wdlist.head, list)
+ watchdog_ping(wddev, false);
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ return;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_kick_all);
+
/*
* watchdog_start: wrapper to start the watchdog.
* @wddev: the watchdog device to start
@@ -314,7 +363,7 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char
__user *data,
}
/* someone wrote to us, so we send the watchdog a keepalive ping */
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ watchdog_ping(wdd, true);
return len;
}
@@ -370,7 +419,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int
cmd,
case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
if (!(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ watchdog_ping(wdd, true);
return 0;
case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
if (get_user(val, p))
@@ -381,7 +430,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int
cmd,
/* If the watchdog is active then we send a keepalive ping
* to make sure that the watchdog keep's running (and if
* possible that it takes the new timeout) */
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ watchdog_ping(wdd, true);
/* Fall */
case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
/* timeout == 0 means that we don't know the timeout */
@@ -479,7 +528,7 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct
file *file)
if (!test_bit(WDOG_UNREGISTERED, &wdd->status))
dev_crit(wdd->dev, "watchdog did not stop!\n");
mutex_unlock(&wdd->lock);
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ watchdog_ping(wdd, true);
}
/* Allow the owner module to be unloaded again */
@@ -550,7 +599,14 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *watchdog)
misc_deregister(&watchdog_miscdev);
old_wdd = NULL;
}
+ return err;
}
+
+ /* no need for save/restore here, not in an irq context */
+ spin_lock_irq(&wdlist.lock);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&watchdog->list, &wdlist.head);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&wdlist.lock);
+
return err;
}
@@ -572,6 +628,12 @@ int watchdog_dev_unregister(struct watchdog_device
*watchdog)
misc_deregister(&watchdog_miscdev);
old_wdd = NULL;
}
+
+ /* no need for save/restore here, not in an irq context */
+ spin_lock_irq(&wdlist.lock);
+ list_del_rcu(&watchdog->list);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&wdlist.lock);
+
return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 2a3038e..d33e209 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
* @driver-data:Pointer to the drivers private data.
* @lock: Lock for watchdog core internal use only.
* @status: Field that contains the devices internal status bits.
+ * @list: Link list of all watchdog devices
*
* The watchdog_device structure contains all information about a
* watchdog timer device.
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
#define WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE 2 /* Did we receive the magic char ? */
#define WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT 3 /* Is 'nowayout' feature set ?
*/
#define WDOG_UNREGISTERED 4 /* Has the device been unregistered */
+ struct list_head list;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
@@ -142,4 +144,11 @@ extern int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device
*wdd,
extern int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *);
extern void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *);
+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_CORE
+/* drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c */
+extern void watchdog_kick_all(void);
+#else
+static inline void watchdog_kick_all(void) { };
+#endif
+
#endif /* ifndef _LINUX_WATCHDOG_H */
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index bddd3d7..24787f1 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
+#include <linux/watchdog.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1094,6 +1095,11 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;
+ /*
+ * Give second kernel a chance to boot
+ */
+ watchdog_kick_all();
+
crash_setup_regs(&fixed_regs, regs);
crash_save_vmcoreinfo();
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);
--
1.7.1
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