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kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count

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Patch series "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls", v2.

Commits 9db89b4111 ("exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs") and
8b05aa2633 ("panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs") added counters for
oopses and warnings to sysfs, and these two patches do the same for
hard/soft lockups and RCU stalls.

All of these counters are useful for monitoring tools to detect whether
the machine is healthy.  If the kernel has experienced a lockup or a
stall, it's probably due to a kernel bug, and I'd like to detect that
quickly and easily.  There is currently no way to detect that, other than
parsing dmesg.  Or observing indirect effects: such as certain tasks not
responding, but then I need to observe all tasks, and it may take a while
until these effects become visible/measurable.  I'd rather be able to
detect the primary cause more quickly, possibly before everything falls
apart.


This patch (of 2):

There is /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count, /sys/kernel/warn_count
and /sys/kernel/oops_count but there is no userspace-accessible counter
for hard/soft lockups.  Having this is useful for monitoring tools.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250504180831.4190860-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250504180831.4190860-2-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Cc:
Cc: Core Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Max Kellermann 2025-05-04 20:08:30 +02:00 • committed by Andrew Morton
parent cc66e4863a
commit aaf05e96e9
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-hardlockup_count Normal file
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What: /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count
Date: May 2025
KernelVersion: 6.16
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Shows how many times the system has detected a hard lockup since last boot.
Available only if CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is enabled.

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What: /sys/kernel/softlockup_count
Date: May 2025
KernelVersion: 6.16
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Shows how many times the system has detected a soft lockup since last boot.
Available only if CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR is enabled.

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kernel/watchdog.c
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@ -64,6 +64,29 @@ int __read_mostly sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
*/
unsigned int __read_mostly hardlockup_panic =
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC);
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
static unsigned int hardlockup_count;
static ssize_t hardlockup_count_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
char *page)
{
return sysfs_emit(page, "%u\n", hardlockup_count);
}
static struct kobj_attribute hardlockup_count_attr = __ATTR_RO(hardlockup_count);
static __init int kernel_hardlockup_sysfs_init(void)
{
sysfs_add_file_to_group(kernel_kobj, &hardlockup_count_attr.attr, NULL);
return 0;
}
late_initcall(kernel_hardlockup_sysfs_init);
#endif // CONFIG_SYSFS
/*
* We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases,
* for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these
@ -170,6 +193,10 @@ void watchdog_hardlockup_check(unsigned int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
unsigned int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
unsigned long flags;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
++hardlockup_count;
#endif
/* Only print hardlockups once. */
if (per_cpu(watchdog_hardlockup_warned, cpu))
return;
@ -312,6 +339,28 @@ unsigned int __read_mostly softlockup_panic =
static bool softlockup_initialized __read_mostly;
static u64 __read_mostly sample_period;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
static unsigned int softlockup_count;
static ssize_t softlockup_count_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
char *page)
{
return sysfs_emit(page, "%u\n", softlockup_count);
}
static struct kobj_attribute softlockup_count_attr = __ATTR_RO(softlockup_count);
static __init int kernel_softlockup_sysfs_init(void)
{
sysfs_add_file_to_group(kernel_kobj, &softlockup_count_attr.attr, NULL);
return 0;
}
late_initcall(kernel_softlockup_sysfs_init);
#endif // CONFIG_SYSFS
/* Timestamp taken after the last successful reschedule. */
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_touch_ts);
/* Timestamp of the last softlockup report. */
@ -743,6 +792,10 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
touch_ts = __this_cpu_read(watchdog_touch_ts);
duration = is_softlockup(touch_ts, period_ts, now);
if (unlikely(duration)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
++softlockup_count;
#endif
/*
* Prevent multiple soft-lockup reports if one cpu is already
* engaged in dumping all cpu back traces.